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title: There once lived in Greece a very wise man whose name was Soc'ra-tes. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: There once lived in Greece a very wise man whose name was Soc'ra-tes. Who acts: name, Soc'ra tes. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Socrates and His House., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Socrates and His House., sentence 1

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There once lived in Greece a very wise man whose name was Soc'ra-tes.

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**Who acts:** name, Soc'ra tes · **What happens:** live, be, name · **To what, where:** wise man, Greece, Soc'ra tes

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Socrates and His House.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Soc'ra tes), 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:pg18442:40:1
# text = There once lived in Greece a very wise man whose name was Soc'ra-tes.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	Soc'ra	Soc'ra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	tes	te	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past |  | a wise man |  | Greece; there |  | once *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in greece=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Soc'ra tes's name | Soc'ra tes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **name** |  | Soc'ra tes |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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