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title: The bark that held the prince went down, The sweeping waves rolled o… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: The bark that held the prince went down, The sweeping waves rolled on; And what was England's glorious crown To him that wept a son? Who acts: bark, glorious crown. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, He Never Smiled Again., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, He Never Smiled Again., sentence 1

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The bark that held the prince went down, The sweeping waves rolled on; And what was England's glorious crown To him that wept a son?

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**Who acts:** bark, glorious crown · **What happens:** hold, go down, roll on, be, weep · **To what, where:** prince, sweeping waves, glorious crown, bark, son

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, He Never Smiled Again.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bark, glorious crown), 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:pg18442:8:1
# text = The bark that held the prince went down, The sweeping waves rolled on; And what was England's glorious crown To him that wept a son?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	sweeping	sweeping	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	parataxis	_	_
13	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
16	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
23	To	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nmod	_	_
25	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | the bark | the prince |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme |
| 2 | **go down** | past | the bark |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **roll on** | participle |  | the sweeping waves *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | England's glorious crown | bark |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **weep** | past | England's glorious crown | a son |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent son=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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