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title: It is not a large mon-u-ment, but it is one that speaks of the noble… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: It is not a large mon-u-ment, but it is one that speaks of the noble deed which made Grace Darling famous. Who acts: ment, noble deed. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Grace Darling., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Grace Darling., sentence 37

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It is not a large mon-u-ment, but it is one that speaks of the noble deed which made Grace Darling famous.

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**Who acts:** ment, noble deed · **What happens:** not be, be, speak, make · **To what, where:** large mon u ment, one, Grace · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Grace Darling.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ment, noble deed), 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:pg18442:22:37
# text = It is not a large mon-u-ment, but it is one that speaks of the noble deed which made Grace Darling famous.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
5	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
6	mon	mon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	u	u	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	ment	ment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	Grace	Grace	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	Darling	Darling	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	_
26	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | ment | a large mon u ment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present | ment | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | present |  |  |  |  |  | of the noble deed | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | past | the noble deed | Grace |  |  |  | famous *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset grace=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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