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title: He trembled with fear; he could not guide the boat; he fell down upo… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He trembled with fear; he could not guide the boat; he fell down upon his knees; he moaned, "All is lost! all is lost!" Who acts: thunder. 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 25

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He trembled with fear; he could not guide the boat; he fell down upon his knees; he moaned, "All is lost! all is lost!"

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**Who acts:** thunder · **What happens:** tremble, not guide, fall down, moan, lose · **To what, where:** boat, knees, All · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (thunder), 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:pg18442:32:25
# text = He trembled with fear; he could not guide the boat; he fell down upon his knees; he moaned, "All is lost! all is lost!"
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	guide	guide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	moaned	moan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tremble** | past | thunder |  |  |  |  | with fear | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **guide** | could | thunder | the boat |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme |
| 3 | **fall down** | past | thunder |  |  | thunder's knees |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon knee=Location |
| 4 | **moan** | past | thunder |  |  |  |  |  | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **lose** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | All |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 6 | **lose** *in a quote* | present · passive |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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