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title: Day after day, week after week, the man kept on saying, "Then anothe… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Day after day, week after week, the man kept on saying, "Then another locust went in and carried away a grain of corn." Who acts: man, Day, locust. 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 32

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Day after day, week after week, the man kept on saying, "Then another locust went in and carried away a grain of corn."

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**Who acts:** man, Day, locust · **What happens:** keep, say, go in, carry away · **To what, where:** Day, grain · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (man, Day, locust), 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:pg18442:45:32
# text = Day after day, week after week, the man kept on saying, "Then another locust went in and carried away a grain of corn."
1	Day	Day	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	saying	say	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	locust	locust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
20	in	in	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the man | Day after day |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | Day after day *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go in** *in a quote* | past | another locust |  |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **carry away** *in a quote* | past | another locust *not said here* | a grain of corn |  |  |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme |

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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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