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title: One hot afternoon, when no one was upon the street, the horse chance… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: One hot afternoon, when no one was upon the street, the horse chanced to wander into the market place. Who acts: one, horse. 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 54

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One hot afternoon, when no one was upon the street, the horse chanced to wander into the market place.

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**Who acts:** one, horse · **What happens:** be, chance, wander · **To what, where:** market place

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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 (one, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg18442:750`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:25:54
# text = One hot afternoon, when no one was upon the street, the horse chanced to wander into the market place.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	chanced	chance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	wander	wander	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | no one |  |  |  |  | upon the street | tree rules |
| 2 | **chance** | past | the horse |  |  |  | afternoon |  | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **wander** | to-infinitive | the horse *not said here* |  |  | the market place |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into place=Destination |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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