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title: If any one of you is wronged at any time, he may come and ring the b… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: If any one of you is wronged at any time, he may come and ring the bell; and then the judges shall come together at once, and hear his case, and give him justice. Who acts: King, judges. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri., with its dependency tree and the
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 18

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If any one of you is wronged at any time, he may come and ring the bell; and then the judges shall come together at once, and hear his case, and give him justice.

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**Who acts:** King, judges · **What happens:** wrong, come, ring, come together, hear, give · **To what, where:** one, bell, case, justice, King

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, judges), 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:pg18442:25:18
# text = If any one of you is wronged at any time, he may come and ring the bell; and then the judges shall come together at once, and hear his case, and give him justice.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	wronged	wrong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	ring	ring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	parataxis	_	_
26	together	together	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	iobj	_	_
38	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wrong** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | any one of you |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | may | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ring** | infinitive | King *not said here* | the bell |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme |
| 4 | **come together** | shall | the judges |  |  |  | then | together *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location |
| 5 | **hear** | infinitive | the judges *not said here* | King's case |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer case=Stimulus |
| 6 | **give** | infinitive | the judges *not said here* | justice | King |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient justice=Theme |

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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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