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title: He sat where festal bowls went round; He heard the minstrel sing; He… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He sat where festal bowls went round; He heard the minstrel sing; He saw the tour-ney's victor crowned Amid the knightly ring. Who acts: life, festal bowls, minstrel, victor. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, He Never Smiled Again., with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, He Never Smiled Again., sentence 6

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He sat where festal bowls went round; He heard the minstrel sing; He saw the tour-ney's victor crowned Amid the knightly ring.

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**Who acts:** life, festal bowls, minstrel, victor · **What happens:** sit, go round, hear, sing, see, crown · **To what, where:** minstrel, victor

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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 (life, festal bowls, minstrel, victor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg18442:182`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:8:6
# text = He sat where festal bowls went round; He heard the minstrel sing; He saw the tour-ney's victor crowned Amid the knightly ring.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	6	advmod	_	_
4	festal	festal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	bowls	bowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	round	round	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	tour	tour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	_
20	ney	ney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	victor	victor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
23	crowned	crown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
24	Amid	amid	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	knightly	knightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | life |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go round** | past | festal bowls |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | past | life | minstrel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | infinitive | minstrel *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **see** | past | life | the tour ney's victor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **crown** | participle | the tour ney's victor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | amid the knightly ring | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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