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title: The king, with his wise men and brave knights, set sail early in the… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: The king, with his wise men and brave knights, set sail early in the day; but Prince William with his younger friends waited a little while. Who acts: king. 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 6

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The king, with his wise men and brave knights, set sail early in the day; but Prince William with his younger friends waited a little while.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** wait

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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 (king), 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:pg18442:7:6
# text = The king, with his wise men and brave knights, set sail early in the day; but Prince William with his younger friends waited a little while.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod:desc	_	_
21	William	William	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | the king with King's wise men and brave knights and set sail |  |  |  | while |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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