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title: He walked about from one street to another, and at last grew so hung… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He walked about from one street to another, and at last grew so hungry that he began to ask those whom he met to give him a penny to buy something to eat. Who acts: Dick. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the City., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 22

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He walked about from one street to another, and at last grew so hungry that he began to ask those whom he met to give him a penny to buy something to eat.

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**Who acts:** Dick · **What happens:** walk, grow, begin, ask, meet, give · **To what, where:** one street, last, those, penny, Dick, something

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the City.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick), 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:pg18442:49:22
# text = He walked about from one street to another, and at last grew so hungry that he began to ask those whom he met to give him a penny to buy something to eat.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	street	street	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
13	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	obj	_	_
22	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	penny	penny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	31	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | Dick |  |  | one street to another |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from street=Trajectory |
| 2 | **grow** | past | Dick *not said here* |  |  | last |  | hungry *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Dick |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | to-infinitive | Dick *not said here* | those |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient |
| 5 | **meet** | past | Dick |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **give** | to-infinitive | Dick *not said here* | a penny | Dick |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient penny=Theme |
| 7 | **buy** | to-infinitive | Dick *not said here* | something |  |  |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
| 8 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Dick *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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