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title: Many miles beyond Rome there was a famous country which we call Gree… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Many miles beyond Rome there was a famous country which we call Greece. Who acts: Many miles, we. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Laconic Answer., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Laconic Answer., sentence 1

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Many miles beyond Rome there was a famous country which we call Greece.

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**Who acts:** Many miles, we · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** famous country · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Laconic Answer.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many miles, we), 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:pg18442:35:1
# text = Many miles beyond Rome there was a famous country which we call Greece.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Many miles beyond Rome | a famous country |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | present | we | a famous country |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme greece=Result |

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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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