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title: He will do some great deeds, and make a name for himself; but in the… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He will do some great deeds, and make a name for himself; but in the end he will be over-come by his foes, and will die in prison. Who acts: Robert, foes. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sons of William the Conqueror., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 29

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He will do some great deeds, and make a name for himself; but in the end he will be over-come by his foes, and will die in prison.

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**Who acts:** Robert, foes · **What happens:** do, make, over-come, die · **To what, where:** great deeds, name, Robert, end

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sons of William the Conqueror.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Robert, foes), 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:pg18442:6:29
# text = He will do some great deeds, and make a name for himself; but in the end he will be over-come by his foes, and will die in prison.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	over-come	over-come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | future | Robert | some great deeds |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality |
| 2 | **make** | infinitive | Robert *not said here* | a name |  |  |  | for Robert | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent name=Product for himself=Asset |
| 3 | **over-come** | future · passive | Robert's foes | Robert |  |  | in the end |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **die** | future | Robert's foes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in prison | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in prison=Attribute |

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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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