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title: In every country, men told about his daring deeds; and they said tha… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: In every country, men told about his daring deeds; and they said that since Alexander the Great there had been no king like him. Who acts: men, daring, king, Gen'ghis. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The King and His Hawk., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The King and His Hawk., sentence 3

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In every country, men told about his daring deeds; and they said that since Alexander the Great there had been no king like him.

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**Who acts:** men, daring, king, Gen'ghis · **What happens:** tell, deed, say, be, dare · **To what, where:** country · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (men, daring, king, Gen'ghis), 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:pg18442:41:3
# text = In every country, men told about his daring deeds; and they said that since Alexander the Great there had been no king like him.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	daring	daring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	deeds	deed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
16	since	since	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Great	Great	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	17	appos	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | men |  |  | every country |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **deed** | present | Gen'ghis's daring |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **be** | past · perfect | no king |  |  | there | since Alexander | like Gen'ghis | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **dare** |  | Gen'ghis |  |  |  |  |  | nom daring «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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