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title: Then an-oth-er would say, "O king! there can never be an-oth-er man… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Then an-oth-er would say, "O king! there can never be an-oth-er man so mighty as you." Who acts: oth er, king. 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 5

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Then an-oth-er would say, "O king! there can never be an-oth-er man so mighty as you."

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**Who acts:** oth er, king · **What happens:** say, not be, man · **To what, where:** oth · **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 (oth er, king), 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:pg18442:5:5
# text = Then an-oth-er would say, "O king! there can never be an-oth-er man so mighty as you."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	oth	oth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	_
12	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
18	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	oth	oth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	er	er	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | would | a oth er |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a oth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **man** *in a quote* | can | king |  |  |  |  |  | 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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