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title: But why should that trouble you? — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: But why should that trouble you? 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 31

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But why should that trouble you?

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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: 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:pg18442:33:31
# text = But why should that trouble you?
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
3	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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