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title: At last Dick could not stand her abuse any longer, and he made up hi… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: At last Dick could not stand her abuse any longer, and he made up his mind to go back to his old home in the little country town. Who acts: Dick, cat. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, III. the Venture., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, III. the Venture., sentence 21

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At last Dick could not stand her abuse any longer, and he made up his mind to go back to his old home in the little country town.

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**Who acts:** Dick, cat · **What happens:** not stand, make up, go back, abuse, mind · **To what, where:** abuse, last Dick, mind, little country town

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, III. the Venture.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick, cat), 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:pg18442:51:21
# text = At last Dick could not stand her abuse any longer, and he made up his mind to go back to his old home in the little country town.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Dick	Dick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	stand	stand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	abuse	abuse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	any	any	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	back	back	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stand** | could |  | cat's abuse |  | last Dick |  | long *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent abuse=Theme at dick=Destination |
| 2 | **make up** | past | Dick | Dick's mind |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot |
| 3 | **go back** | to-infinitive | Dick *not said here* |  |  | the little country town |  | to Dick's old home *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result |
| 4 | **abuse** |  | cat |  |  |  |  |  | nom abuse «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **mind** |  | Dick |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition 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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