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title: There was in the northern part of Greece a land called Mac'e-don; an… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: There was in the northern part of Greece a land called Mac'e-don; and this land was at one time ruled over by a war-like king named Philip. Who acts: land. 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 7

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There was in the northern part of Greece a land called Mac'e-don; and this land was at one time ruled over by a war-like king named Philip.

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**Who acts:** land · **What happens:** be, call, rule over, name · **To what, where:** northern part, Mac'e don, one time, like king · **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 (land), 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:pg18442:35:7
# text = There was in the northern part of Greece a land called Mac'e-don; and this land was at one time ruled over by a war-like king named Philip.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	Mac'e	Mac'e	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	don	don	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
23	ruled	rule	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	over	over	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
27	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
31	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	Philip	Philip	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a land |  |  | the northern part of Greece; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in part=Location |
| 2 | **call** | participle | a land *not said here* | Mac'e don |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | this land |  |  |  | at one time |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rule over** | participle |  | one time *not said here* |  |  |  | by a like king; over *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **name** | participle |  | a like king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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