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title: "Boys!" cried Ralph the Rover; "put out the boat, and row me to the… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: "Boys!" cried Ralph the Rover; "put out the boat, and row me to the Inchcape Rock. Who acts: Boys. 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 23

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"Boys!" cried Ralph the Rover; "put out the boat, and row me to the Inchcape Rock.

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**Who acts:** Boys · **What happens:** cry, put out, row · **To what, where:** Ralph Rover, boat, Boys, Inchcape Rock · **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 (Boys), 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:pg18442:48:23
# text = "Boys!" cried Ralph the Rover; "put out the boat, and row me to the Inchcape Rock.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Ralph	Ralph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Rover	Rover	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	row	row	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Inchcape	Inchcape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Rock	Rock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Boys | the Ralph Rover |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rover=Topic |
| 2 | **put out** *in a quote* | infinitive | Boys *not said here* | the boat |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent boat=Goal |
| 3 | **row** *in a quote* | infinitive | Boys *not said here* | Boys *= boy* |  | the Inchcape Rock |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme to 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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