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title: Thus all the world was made to know of the mean act by which the sol… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus all the world was made to know of the mean act by which the soldier had tried to enrich himself; and from that day until he died all men shunned and hated him. Who acts: world, mean act, GUEST, men. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Ungrateful Guest., with its de
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Ungrateful Guest., sentence 23

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Thus all the world was made to know of the mean act by which the soldier had tried to enrich himself; and from that day until he died all men shunned and hated him.

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**Who acts:** world, mean act, GUEST, men · **What happens:** make, know, try, enrich, die, shun · **To what, where:** world, soldier, GUEST, day, man

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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 (world, mean act, GUEST, 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:pg18442:36:23
# text = Thus all the world was made to know of the mean act by which the soldier had tried to enrich himself; and from that day until he died all men shunned and hated him.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	mean	mean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	enrich	enrich	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	det	_	_
31	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	shunned	shun	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	ccomp	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	hated	hate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · passive |  | all world |  |  | day | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive | all world *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the mean act | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of act=Stimulus |
| 3 | **try** | past · perfect · passive | the mean act | the soldier |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **enrich** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the mean act *not said here* | GUEST |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Destination |
| 5 | **die** | past | GUEST | that day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **shun** | past | all men |  |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **hate** | past | GUEST *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |

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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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