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title: Soon Cor-ne'li-a, their mother, came down the walk to speak with them. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon Cor-ne'li-a, their mother, came down the walk to speak with them. Who acts: Cor. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Cornelia's Jewels., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Cornelia's Jewels., sentence 11

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Soon Cor-ne'li-a, their mother, came down the walk to speak with them.

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**Who acts:** Cor · **What happens:** come down, speak · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Cornelia's Jewels.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cor), 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:pg18442:29:11
# text = Soon Cor-ne'li-a, their mother, came down the walk to speak with them.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
2	Cor	Cor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	ne'li	ne'li	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	walk	walk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come down** | past | Cor |  |  |  |  | down, soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Cor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with mother | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with they=Co-Agent |

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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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