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title: They said that all the folks who lived in London were fine gen-tle-m… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: They said that all the folks who lived in London were fine gen-tle-men and ladies; that there was singing and music there all day long; that nobody was ever hungry there, and nobody had to work; and that the streets were all paved with gold. Who acts: people, folks, nobody. A sentence of «Fifty Famo
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the City., sentence 7

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They said that all the folks who lived in London were fine gen-tle-men and ladies; that there was singing and music there all day long; that nobody was ever hungry there, and nobody had to work; and that the streets were all paved with gold.

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**Who acts:** people, folks, nobody · **What happens:** say, live, be, sing, have, work · **To what, where:** London, fine tle men, streets · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people, folks, nobody), 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:pg18442:49:7
# text = They said that all the folks who lived in London were fine gen-tle-men and ladies; that there was singing and music there all day long; that nobody was ever hungry there, and nobody had to work; and that the streets were all paved with gold.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
4	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	6	det:predet	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
12	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
13	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	tle	tle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	ccomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	23	expl	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
30	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
32	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	36	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	36	advmod	_	_
36	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
37	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	41	nsubj	_	_
41	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
46	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nsubj:pass	_	_
49	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux:pass	_	_
50	all	all	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	paved	pave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
52	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **live** | past | all folks |  |  | London |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in london=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | all folks | fine tle men and ladies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · progressive | people *not said here* |  |  | there | day |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | nobody |  |  | there | ever | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | past | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **work** | to-infinitive | nobody *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **pave** | past · passive |  | the streets |  |  |  | with gold; all *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with gold=Theme |

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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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