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title: One day, with soot and water he made some ink; he spread out his han… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, with soot and water he made some ink; he spread out his hand-ker-chief for paper; he used a sharp-ened stick for a pen--and all for what? Who acts: heart. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 117

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One day, with soot and water he made some ink; he spread out his hand-ker-chief for paper; he used a sharp-ened stick for a pen--and all for what?

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**Who acts:** heart · **What happens:** make, spread out, use, en · **To what, where:** ink, hand ker chief, sharp ened stick

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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:pg18442:54:117
# text = One day, with soot and water he made some ink; he spread out his hand-ker-chief for paper; he used a sharp-ened stick for a pen--and all for what?
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	soot	soot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	ink	ink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	ker	ker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	ened	en	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	amod	_	_
31	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	conj	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | heart | some ink |  |  | day |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ink=Product |
| 2 | **spread out** | past | heart | heart's hand ker chief |  |  |  | for paper | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chief=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | past | heart | a sharp ened stick |  |  |  | for a pen | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent stick=Theme for pen=Eventuality |
| 4 | **en** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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