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title: For everything de-pend-ed on having the table nicely arranged. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: For everything de-pend-ed on having the table nicely arranged. Who acts: de pend ed. 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 30

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For everything de-pend-ed on having the table nicely arranged.

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**Who acts:** de pend ed · **What happens:** have, arrange · **To what, where:** table

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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 (de pend ed), 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:pg18442:54:30
# text = For everything de-pend-ed on having the table nicely arranged.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	obl	_	_
3	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	pend	pend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	ed	ed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	nicely	nicely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	arranged	arrange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | de pend ed *not said here* | the table |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Patient |
| 2 | **arrange** | participle | de pend ed *not said here* |  |  |  |  | nicely *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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