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title: The ship belonged to a sea robber called Ralph the Rover; and she wa… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: The ship belonged to a sea robber called Ralph the Rover; and she was a terror to all honest people both on sea and shore. Who acts: ship, Ralph. 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 14

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The ship belonged to a sea robber called Ralph the Rover; and she was a terror to all honest people both on sea and shore.

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**Who acts:** ship, Ralph · **What happens:** belong, call, be · **To what, where:** sea robber, terror · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (ship, Ralph), 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:pg18442:48:14
# text = The ship belonged to a sea robber called Ralph the Rover; and she was a terror to all honest people both on sea and shore.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	belonged	belong	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	Ralph	Ralph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Rover	Rover	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
20	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	both	both	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | past | the ship |  |  |  |  | to a sea robber | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | a sea robber *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Ralph | a terror |  |  |  | to all honest people on sea and shore | 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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