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title: The may-or looked very proud and happy; for was he not the ruler of… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: The may-or looked very proud and happy; for was he not the ruler of this village? Who acts: may. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Julius Caesar., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Julius Caesar., sentence 13

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The may-or looked very proud and happy; for was he not the ruler of this village?

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**Who acts:** may · **What happens:** look, not be · **To what, where:** ruler

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Julius Caesar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (may), 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:pg18442:992`): 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:pg18442:32:13
# text = The may-or looked very proud and happy; for was he not the ruler of this village?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	may	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	_
4	or	or	X	XX	_	2	goeswith	_	_
5	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	for	for	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ruler	ruler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past | the may |  |  |  |  | proud *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | past | may *= mayor* | the ruler |  |  |  | of this village | 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:** 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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