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title: He wanted no more food; he could drink no more wine; he took no more… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He wanted no more food; he could drink no more wine; he took no more delight in the music. Who acts: smile. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sword of Damocles., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sword of Damocles., sentence 25

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He wanted no more food; he could drink no more wine; he took no more delight in the music.

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**Who acts:** smile · **What happens:** want, drink, take · **To what, where:** more food, more wine, more delight, music

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sword of Damocles.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smile), 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:pg18442:33:25
# text = He wanted no more food; he could drink no more wine; he took no more delight in the music.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
10	no	no	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	no	no	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | smile | more food |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme |
| 2 | **drink** | could | smile | more wine |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | past | smile | more delight |  | the music |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent delight=Value in music=Location |

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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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