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title: "THE UNGRATEFUL GUEST." — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: "THE UNGRATEFUL GUEST." 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 22

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"THE UNGRATEFUL GUEST."

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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: 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:pg18442:36:22
# text = "THE UNGRATEFUL GUEST."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	UNGRATEFUL	ungrateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	GUEST	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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