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title: He bade the king and queen good-by, and the very next day set sail f… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He bade the king and queen good-by, and the very next day set sail for England. Who acts: rest. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, IV. the Cat., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, IV. the Cat., sentence 29

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He bade the king and queen good-by, and the very next day set sail for England.

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**Who acts:** rest · **What happens:** bade, set · **To what, where:** king

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, IV. the Cat.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest), 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:pg18442:52:29
# text = He bade the king and queen good-by, and the very next day set sail for England.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bade	bade	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bade** | past | rest | the king and queen |  |  |  | day set sail for England *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **set** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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