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title: Indeed, I am at a loss to know which one of the three ought to be th… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Indeed, I am at a loss to know which one of the three ought to be the king when I am gone." Who acts: I, three. 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 5

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Indeed, I am at a loss to know which one of the three ought to be the king when I am gone."

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**Who acts:** I, three · **What happens:** be, know · **To what, where:** loss, one

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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 (I, three), 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:pg18442:6:5
# text = Indeed, I am at a loss to know which one of the three ought to be the king when I am gone."
1	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	11	det	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nsubj	_	_
15	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
20	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	23	mark	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | I |  |  | a loss |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | to-infinitive |  | which one |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | ought | three |  |  |  |  | of the king | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | 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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