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title: Ship and boat, prince and prin-cess, and all the gay com-pa-ny that… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Ship and boat, prince and prin-cess, and all the gay com-pa-ny that had set sail from France, went down to the bottom together. Who acts: Ship. 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 37

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Ship and boat, prince and prin-cess, and all the gay com-pa-ny that had set sail from France, went down to the bottom together.

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**Who acts:** Ship · **What happens:** set, go down · **To what, where:** gay pa ny

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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 (Ship), 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:pg18442:7:37
# text = Ship and boat, prince and prin-cess, and all the gay com-pa-ny that had set sail from France, went down to the bottom together.
1	Ship	ship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	prin	prin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	cess	cess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
14	gay	gay	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
15	com	com	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	pa	pa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	ny	ny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
27	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	down	down	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	together	together	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past · perfect · passive |  | all gay pa ny |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme sail=Destination |
| 2 | **go down** | past | Ship and boat and prin cess |  |  |  |  | to the bottom; down, together *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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