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title: Rich and poor, old and young, all alike may come; but no one must to… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Rich and poor, old and young, all alike may come; but no one must touch the rope unless he knows that he has been wronged." Who acts: Rich, one, rope. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 19

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Rich and poor, old and young, all alike may come; but no one must touch the rope unless he knows that he has been wronged."

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**Who acts:** Rich, one, rope · **What happens:** come, touch, know, wrong · **To what, where:** rope · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Rich, one, rope), 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:pg18442:25:19
# text = Rich and poor, old and young, all alike may come; but no one must touch the rope unless he knows that he has been wronged."
1	Rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
10	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	knows	know	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	wronged	wrong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | may | Rich |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **touch** | must | no one | the rope |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rope=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | rope |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **wrong** | present · perfect · passive |  | rope |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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