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title: I would put up with almost anything, to be Lord Mayor of London when… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: I would put up with almost anything, to be Lord Mayor of London when I am a man, and to ride in a fine coach! Who acts: I. 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 29

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I would put up with almost anything, to be Lord Mayor of London when I am a man, and to ride in a fine coach!

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** put up, be, ride · **To what, where:** Lord Mayor, man, fine coach

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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 (I), 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:pg18442:51:29
# text = I would put up with almost anything, to be Lord Mayor of London when I am a man, and to ride in a fine coach!
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
11	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	ride	ride	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put up** | would | I |  |  |  |  | with anything | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | Lord Mayor |  |  |  | of London | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | I | a man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **ride** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | a fine coach |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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