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title: On the king's wrist sat his favorite hawk; for in those days hawks w… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: On the king's wrist sat his favorite hawk; for in those days hawks were trained to hunt. Who acts: hawks. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The King and His Hawk., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 11

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On the king's wrist sat his favorite hawk; for in those days hawks were trained to hunt.

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**Who acts:** hawks · **What happens:** sit, train, hunt · **To what, where:** favorite hawk, wrist, hawks

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The King and His Hawk.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hawks), 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:pg18442:41:11
# text = On the king's wrist sat his favorite hawk; for in those days hawks were trained to hunt.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	wrist	wrist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	favorite	favorite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
15	hawks	hawk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	trained	train	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past |  | daring's favorite hawk |  | the king's wrist |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent hawk=Theme on wrist=Location |
| 2 | **train** | past · passive |  | hawks |  |  | day |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | hawks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: 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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