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title: The king was a man of sense, and he grew very tired of hearing such… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: The king was a man of sense, and he grew very tired of hearing such foolish speeches. Who acts: 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 7

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The king was a man of sense, and he grew very tired of hearing such foolish speeches.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** be, grow, hear · **To what, where:** man, such foolish speeches

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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 (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:pg18442:5:7
# text = The king was a man of sense, and he grew very tired of hearing such foolish speeches.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	speeches	speech	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the king | a man |  |  |  | of sense | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past | king | a man *not said here* |  |  |  | tired *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | gerund | king *not said here* | such foolish speeches |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speech=Stimulus |

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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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