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title: "You are a very kind man, and I think you might be a good king; but… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: "You are a very kind man, and I think you might be a good king; but if you were to try all your life, you would never be a good gooseherd." Who acts: You, I. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Maximilian and the Goose Boy., sentence 77

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"You are a very kind man, and I think you might be a good king; but if you were to try all your life, you would never be a good gooseherd."

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**Who acts:** You, I · **What happens:** be, think, try, not be · **To what, where:** kind man, good king, life, good gooseherd · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Maximilian and the Goose Boy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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:pg18442:47:77
# text = "You are a very kind man, and I think you might be a good king; but if you were to try all your life, you would never be a good gooseherd."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
13	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
20	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
31	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
32	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	gooseherd	gooseherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | You | a kind man but a good gooseherd |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | I | a kind man but a good gooseherd *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | might | you | a good king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **try** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | you | your life |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | would | you | a good gooseherd |  |  |  |  | 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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