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title: Every day, and all day long, he sat on soft cush-ions and lis-tened… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Every day, and all day long, he sat on soft cush-ions and lis-tened to stories. Who acts: king. 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 2

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Every day, and all day long, he sat on soft cush-ions and lis-tened to stories.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** sit, ten · **To what, where:** soft cush ions

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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 (king), 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:pg18442:45:2
# text = Every day, and all day long, he sat on soft cush-ions and lis-tened to stories.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
13	cush	cush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	ions	ion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	lis	lis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	tened	ten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | king |  |  | soft cush ions | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ion=Location |
| 2 | **ten** | participle | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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