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title: And he cher-ished Picciola as a dear, loved friend whom he could nev… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: And he cher-ished Picciola as a dear, loved friend whom he could never forget. Who acts: Charney. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Antonio Canova., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Antonio Canova., sentence 155

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And he cher-ished Picciola as a dear, loved friend whom he could never forget.

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**Who acts:** Charney · **What happens:** ish, love, not forget · **To what, where:** Picciola, dear loved friend

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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 (Charney), 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:pg18442:54:155
# text = And he cher-ished Picciola as a dear, loved friend whom he could never forget.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	cher	cher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	ished	ish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	Picciola	Picciola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	advcl	_	_
13	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ish** | participle | Charney | Picciola |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **love** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **forget** | could | Charney | a dear loved friend |  |  |  |  | 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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