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title: Just at that time the master of the house, whose name was Mr. Fitz-w… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Just at that time the master of the house, whose name was Mr. Fitz-war'ren, came home to dinner. Who acts: master, Fitz war'ren, house. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Kitchen., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Kitchen., sentence 7

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Just at that time the master of the house, whose name was Mr. Fitz-war'ren, came home to dinner.

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**Who acts:** master, Fitz war'ren, house · **What happens:** be, come, name · **To what, where:** Fitz war'ren, dinner

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Kitchen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, Fitz war'ren, house), 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:pg18442:50:7
# text = Just at that time the master of the house, whose name was Mr. Fitz-war'ren, came home to dinner.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Fitz	Fitz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	war'ren	war'ren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	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 master of the house and the house and name's name | Fitz war'ren |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | Fitz war'ren |  |  | dinner |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to dinner=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **name** |  | the house and the house and name's name |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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