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title: Then he re-mem-bered what the wise men had told him; and so he de-cl… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he re-mem-bered what the wise men had told him; and so he de-clared that Robert should have the lands which he held in France, that William should be the King of England, and that Henry should have no land at all, but only a chest of gold. Who acts: king, de clared, lands, William. A sentence o
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 37

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Then he re-mem-bered what the wise men had told him; and so he de-clared that Robert should have the lands which he held in France, that William should be the King of England, and that Henry should have no land at all, but only a chest of gold.

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**Who acts:** king, de clared, lands, William, Henry · **What happens:** re-mem-ber, tell, clared, have, hold, be · **To what, where:** wise men, king, lands, France, land, all · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (king, de clared, lands, William), 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:pg18442:6:37
# text = Then he re-mem-bered what the wise men had told him; and so he de-clared that Robert should have the lands which he held in France, that William should be the King of England, and that Henry should have no land at all, but only a chest of gold.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	re-mem-bered	re-mem-ber	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	de	de	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	clared	clared	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
19	Robert	Robert	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
31	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
32	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
41	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
42	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
44	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	45	det	_	_
45	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
46	at	at	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	only	only	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **re-mem-ber** | past | king |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive |  | the wise men | king |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **clared** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | should | de clared | the lands |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient |
| 5 | **hold** | past | the lands |  |  | France |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in france=Location |
| 6 | **is a** | should | William | the King |  |  |  | of England | tree rules |
| 7 | **have** | should | Henry | no land |  | all |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient |

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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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