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title: One calm summer day, a ship with a black flag happened to sail not f… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: One calm summer day, a ship with a black flag happened to sail not far from the Inch-cape Rock. Who acts: One calm summer day. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Inchcape Rock., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Inchcape Rock., sentence 13

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One calm summer day, a ship with a black flag happened to sail not far from the Inch-cape Rock.

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**Who acts:** One calm summer day · **What happens:** happen, not sail · **To what, where:** cape Rock

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Inchcape Rock.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One calm summer day), 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:pg18442:48:13
# text = One calm summer day, a ship with a black flag happened to sail not far from the Inch-cape Rock.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	sail	sail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
16	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	Inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	cape	cape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | One calm summer day |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **sail** | to-infinitive | One calm summer day *not said here* |  |  | the cape Rock |  | far *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from rock=Trajectory |

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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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