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title: "Sea," cried Canute, "I command you to come no farther! — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: "Sea," cried Canute, "I command you to come no farther! Who acts: Sea. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Canute on the Seashore., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Canute on the Seashore., sentence 19

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"Sea," cried Canute, "I command you to come no farther!

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**Who acts:** Sea · **What happens:** cry, command, come · **To what, where:** Canute, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Canute on the Seashore.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sea), 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:pg18442:5:19
# text = "Sea," cried Canute, "I command you to come no farther!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Canute	Canute	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	command	command	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	no	no	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	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 | Sea | Canute |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canute=Topic |
| 2 | **command** *in a quote* | present | Sea | you |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **come** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Sea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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