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title: He was sheriff of the city, and thrice lord mayor; and King Henry V.… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He was sheriff of the city, and thrice lord mayor; and King Henry V. made him a knight. Who acts: Richard, Henry. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, V. the Fortune., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, V. the Fortune., sentence 34

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He was sheriff of the city, and thrice lord mayor; and King Henry V. made him a knight.

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**Who acts:** Richard, Henry · **What happens:** be, make · **To what, where:** sheriff, knight, Richard

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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 (Richard, Henry), 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:pg18442:53:34
# text = He was sheriff of the city, and thrice lord mayor; and King Henry V. made him a knight.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	sheriff	sheriff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	thrice	thrice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	mayor	mayor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	V.	V.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Richard | sheriff and thrice lord mayor |  |  |  | of the city | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | Henry  King | a knight | Richard |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary knight=Product |

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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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