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title: He will lead a wicked life, and will die a shameful death. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He will lead a wicked life, and will die a shameful death. Who acts: eagle. 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 31

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He will lead a wicked life, and will die a shameful death.

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**Who acts:** eagle · **What happens:** lead, die · **To what, where:** wicked life, shameful death

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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 (eagle), 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:pg18442:6:31
# text = He will lead a wicked life, and will die a shameful death.
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	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	shameful	shameful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | future | eagle | a wicked life |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
| 2 | **die** | future | eagle *not said here* | a shameful death |  |  |  |  | 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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