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title: A murmur of the restless deep Was blent with every strain, A voice o… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: A murmur of the restless deep Was blent with every strain, A voice of winds that would not sleep-- He never smiled again. Who acts: murmur, winds, life. 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 7

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A murmur of the restless deep Was blent with every strain, A voice of winds that would not sleep-- He never smiled again.

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**Who acts:** murmur, winds, life · **What happens:** be, not sleep, not smile, murmur · **To what, where:** restless deep

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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 (murmur, winds, life), 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:pg18442:8:7
# text = A murmur of the restless deep Was blent with every strain, A voice of winds that would not sleep-- He never smiled again.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	murmur	murmur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	restless	restless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	deep	deep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	blent	blent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	strain	strain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	winds	wind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	sleep	sleep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	smiled	smile	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | a murmur of the restless deep |  |  |  |  | with every strain  a voice of winds; blent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **sleep** | would | winds |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **smile** | past | life |  |  |  | again |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **murmur** |  |  | the restless deep |  |  |  |  | nom murmur «event transitive»: of=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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