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title: He was some-times called Doctor Goldsmith; for he had studied to be… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He was some-times called Doctor Goldsmith; for he had studied to be a phy-si-cian. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Doctor Goldsmith., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Doctor Goldsmith., sentence 6

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He was some-times called Doctor Goldsmith; for he had studied to be a phy-si-cian.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, call, study · **To what, where:** times, si cian · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Doctor Goldsmith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg18442:42:6
# text = He was some-times called Doctor Goldsmith; for he had studied to be a phy-si-cian.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	Doctor	Doctor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	xcomp	_	_
8	Goldsmith	Goldsmith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	studied	study	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
17	phy	phy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	si	si	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	cian	cian	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | man | some times |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | some times *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **study** | past · perfect | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | a si cian |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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