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title: "The second son, William, will be as brave and strong as the eagle;… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: "The second son, William, will be as brave and strong as the eagle; but he will be feared and hated for his cruel deeds. Who acts: second son. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Sons of William the Conqueror., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 30

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"The second son, William, will be as brave and strong as the eagle; but he will be feared and hated for his cruel deeds.

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**Who acts:** second son · **What happens:** be, fear, hate · **To what, where:** eagle

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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 (second son), 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:pg18442:6:30
# text = "The second son, William, will be as brave and strong as the eagle; but he will be feared and hated for his cruel deeds.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	eagle	eagle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	feared	fear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	hated	hate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | future | the second son |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | the second son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the eagle | tree rules |
| 3 | **fear** *in a quote* | future · passive |  | eagle |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hate** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for eagle's cruel deeds | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for deed=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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