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title: His best friend through all that time had been his horse,--a strong,… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: His best friend through all that time had been his horse,--a strong, noble steed that had borne him safe through many a danger. Who acts: best friend, strong noble steed. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 41

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His best friend through all that time had been his horse,--a strong, noble steed that had borne him safe through many a danger.

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**Who acts:** best friend, strong noble steed · **What happens:** be, bear · **To what, where:** horse, rope, danger

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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 (best friend, strong noble steed), 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:pg18442:25:41
# text = His best friend through all that time had been his horse,--a strong, noble steed that had borne him safe through many a danger.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	through	through	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	nsubj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past · perfect | rope's best friend through all time | rope's horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | past · perfect | a strong noble steed | rope |  | a danger |  | safe *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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