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title: One day when Smith was in the woods, some Indians came upon him, and… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: One day when Smith was in the woods, some Indians came upon him, and made him their pris-on-er. Who acts: Smith, Indians. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Sir Walter Raleigh., sentence 59

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One day when Smith was in the woods, some Indians came upon him, and made him their pris-on-er.

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**Who acts:** Smith, Indians · **What happens:** be, come, make · **To what, where:** woods, pris, Smith

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Sir Walter Raleigh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Smith, Indians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:20:59
# text = One day when Smith was in the woods, some Indians came upon him, and made him their pris-on-er.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
4	Smith	Smith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	Indians	Indian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	pris	pris	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	er	er	INTJ	UH	_	22	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Smith |  |  | the woods |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | some Indians |  |  |  | day | upon Smith | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location |
| 3 | **make** | past | some Indians *not said here* | Indians's pris | Smith |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary pris=Product |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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