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title: There stood proud forms before his throne, The stately and the brave… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: There stood proud forms before his throne, The stately and the brave; But who could fill the place of one,-- That one beneath the wave? A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, He Never Smiled Again., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, He Never Smiled Again., sentence 4

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There stood proud forms before his throne, The stately and the brave; But who could fill the place of one,-- That one beneath the wave?

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**What happens:** stand, fill · **To what, where:** proud forms, throne, place

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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: 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:pg18442:8:4
# text = There stood proud forms before his throne, The stately and the brave; But who could fill the place of one,-- That one beneath the wave?
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	forms	form	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stately	stately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	conj	_	_
27	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  | proud forms |  | life's throne; there |  | stately *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent form=Theme before throne=Destination |
| 2 | **fill** | could |  | the place of one |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent place=Patient |

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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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