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title: And so the prince, and the young people who were with him, gave them… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: And so the prince, and the young people who were with him, gave themselves up to mer-ri-ment and feasting and joy. Who acts: young people, prince. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The White Ship., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The White Ship., sentence 16

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And so the prince, and the young people who were with him, gave themselves up to mer-ri-ment and feasting and joy.

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**Who acts:** young people, prince · **What happens:** be, give up, mer · **To what, where:** people, ri ment

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The White Ship.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young people, prince), 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:pg18442:7:16
# text = And so the prince, and the young people who were with him, gave themselves up to mer-ri-ment and feasting and joy.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	mer	mer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	ri	RI	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	ment	ment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	feasting	feasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the young people |  |  |  |  | with sea | tree rules |
| 2 | **give up** | past | the prince | people |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Source |
| 3 | **mer** | infinitive | the prince *not said here* | ri ment and feasting and joy |  |  |  |  | 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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