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title: And the lord mayor was there, and the great judges, and the sher-iff… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: And the lord mayor was there, and the great judges, and the sher-iffs, and many rich mer-chants; and everybody was very happy. Who acts: lord mayor, great judges. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 32

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And the lord mayor was there, and the great judges, and the sher-iffs, and many rich mer-chants; and everybody was very happy.

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**Who acts:** lord mayor, great judges · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord mayor, great judges), 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:pg18442:53:32
# text = And the lord mayor was there, and the great judges, and the sher-iffs, and many rich mer-chants; and everybody was very happy.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	sher	sher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	iffs	iff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
21	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	mer	mer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	chants	chant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	30	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the lord mayor |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the great judges  the sher iffs and many rich mer chants |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | tree rules |

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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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