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title: Time passed, and by and by the day drew near which had been set for… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Time passed, and by and by the day drew near which had been set for Pythias to die; and he had not come back. Who acts: day, man. 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 14

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Time passed, and by and by the day drew near which had been set for Pythias to die; and he had not come back.

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**Who acts:** day, man · **What happens:** pass, draw, set, die, not come back

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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 (day, man), 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:pg18442:34:14
# text = Time passed, and by and by the day drew near which had been set for Pythias to die; and he had not come back.
1	Time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
5	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	near	near	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	ccomp	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Pythias	pythia	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | participle |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **draw** | past | the day |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **set** | past · perfect · passive | the day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Pythias | tree rules |
| 4 | **die** | to-infinitive | the day *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **not** **come back** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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