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title: King Philip was very angry when he learned that the man whom he had… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: King Philip was very angry when he learned that the man whom he had trusted had done so base a deed. Who acts: Philip, man. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Ungrateful Guest., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Guest., sentence 20

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King Philip was very angry when he learned that the man whom he had trusted had done so base a deed.

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**Who acts:** Philip, man · **What happens:** be, learn, trust, do · **To what, where:** man, base · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Ungrateful Guest.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Philip, 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:pg18442:36:20
# text = King Philip was very angry when he learned that the man whom he had trusted had done so base a deed.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Philip	Philip	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
12	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	trusted	trust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	ccomp	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Philip  King |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **learn** | past | Philip |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **trust** | past · perfect · passive |  | the man |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | past · perfect | the man | base |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality |

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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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