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title: "Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm-- A cr… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: "Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm-- A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form." Who acts: beautiful. 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 87

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"Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm-- A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form."

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**Who acts:** beautiful · **What happens:** stand, bear, rule · **To what, where:** storm

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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 (beautiful), 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:pg18442:53:87
# text = "Yet beautiful and bright he stood, As born to rule the storm-- A creature of heroic blood, A proud though childlike form."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
3	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
24	though	though	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	childlike	childlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** *in a quote* | past | beautiful |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bear** *in a quote* | participle | beautiful *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **rule** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | beautiful *not said here* | the storm |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Theme |

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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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