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title: A young man whose name was Pyth'i-as had done something which the ty… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: A young man whose name was Pyth'i-as had done something which the tyrant Dionysius did not like. Who acts: name, Pyth'i. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Damon and Pythias., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Damon and Pythias., sentence 1

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A young man whose name was Pyth'i-as had done something which the tyrant Dionysius did not like.

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**Who acts:** name, Pyth'i · **What happens:** be, do, not like, name · **To what, where:** Pyth'i, tyrant

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Damon and Pythias.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Pyth'i), 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:pg18442:34:1
# text = A young man whose name was Pyth'i-as had done something which the tyrant Dionysius did not like.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	Pyth'i	Pyth'i	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	conj	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	tyrant	tyrant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
16	Dionysius	Dionysius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Pyth'i's name | Pyth'i |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **like** | past · do-support |  | the tyrant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** |  | Pyth'i |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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