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title: One young man invented a story that lasted three months; but at the… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: One young man invented a story that lasted three months; but at the end of that time, he could think of nothing more. Who acts: One young man, story, man. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Endless Tale., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Endless Tale., sentence 15

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One young man invented a story that lasted three months; but at the end of that time, he could think of nothing more.

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**Who acts:** One young man, story, man · **What happens:** invent, last, think · **To what, where:** story, end

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Endless Tale.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One young man, story, 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:pg18442:45:15
# text = One young man invented a story that lasted three months; but at the end of that time, he could think of nothing more.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	invented	invent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	obl	_	_
25	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **invent** | past | One young man | a story |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result |
| 2 | **last** | past | a story |  |  |  | month |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | could | man |  |  |  | at the end of that time | of nothing | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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