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title: For many days, Ralph the Rover scoured the seas, and many were the s… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: For many days, Ralph the Rover scoured the seas, and many were the ships that he plun-dered. Who acts: Ralph, Rover. 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 34

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For many days, Ralph the Rover scoured the seas, and many were the ships that he plun-dered.

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**Who acts:** Ralph, Rover · **What happens:** scour, be, der · **To what, where:** seas, many ships

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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 (Ralph, Rover), 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:pg18442:48:34
# text = For many days, Ralph the Rover scoured the seas, and many were the ships that he plun-dered.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Ralph	Ralph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Rover	Rover	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	scoured	scour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	plun	plun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	dered	der	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scour** | past | Ralph | the seas |  |  | day |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sea=Source |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the many ships |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **der** | participle | Rover | the many ships |  |  |  |  | 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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