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title: He felt that men who loved and trusted each other, as did Damon and… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He felt that men who loved and trusted each other, as did Damon and Pythias, ought not to suffer un-just-ly. Who acts: tyrant, men. 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 28

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He felt that men who loved and trusted each other, as did Damon and Pythias, ought not to suffer un-just-ly.

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**Who acts:** tyrant, men · **What happens:** feel, love, trust, do, not suffer · **To what, where:** other, Damon

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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, men), 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:pg18442:34:28
# text = He felt that men who loved and trusted each other, as did Damon and Pythias, ought not to suffer un-just-ly.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	Damon	Damon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Pythias	Pythias	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
18	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
22	un-just-ly	un-just-ly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | tyrant |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **love** | past | men |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **trust** | participle | men *not said here* | each other |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | past | men *not said here* | Damon and Pythias |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damon=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **suffer** | ought | men |  |  |  |  | un-just-ly *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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