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description: Perhaps, by asking each one of them a few ques-tions, we can find out which one of them will be best fitted to rule in your place." Who acts: we. 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 cla
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Sons of William the Conqueror., sentence 7

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Perhaps, by asking each one of them a few ques-tions, we can find out which one of them will be best fitted to rule in your place."

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** ask, find out, fit, rule · **To what, where:** one, place · **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 (we), 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:pg18442:6:7
# text = Perhaps, by asking each one of them a few ques-tions, we can find out which one of them will be best fitted to rule in your place."
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	asking	ask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ques	que	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	tions	tion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	20	det	_	_
20	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
25	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	26	advmod	_	_
26	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | gerund | we *not said here* | each one of sons |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find out** | can | we |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **fit** | future · passive |  | which one of sons |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **rule** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | your place |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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