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title: He at last agreed to let Pythias go, and gave orders that the young… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He at last agreed to let Pythias go, and gave orders that the young man Da-mon should be shut up in prison. Who acts: tyrant, Pythias. 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 13

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He at last agreed to let Pythias go, and gave orders that the young man Da-mon should be shut up in prison.

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**Who acts:** tyrant, Pythias · **What happens:** agree, let, go, give, shut up · **To what, where:** Pythias, orders, young man, prison

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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 (tyrant, Pythias), 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:pg18442:34:13
# text = He at last agreed to let Pythias go, and gave orders that the young man Da-mon should be shut up in prison.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	Pythias	pythia	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
17	Da	Da	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	mon	mon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	advcl	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle | tyrant |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **let** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | tyrant *not said here* | Pythias |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | Pythias *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past | tyrant *not said here* | orders |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 5 | **shut up** | should · passive |  | the young man and mon |  | prison |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

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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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