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title: All that there is in this broad land is mine by right; and how do yo… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: All that there is in this broad land is mine by right; and how do you dare to put me to shame by living in grander style than I? Who acts: you. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the Three Questions., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 16

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All that there is in this broad land is mine by right; and how do you dare to put me to shame by living in grander style than I?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** be, dare, put, shame, live · **To what, where:** All, broad land, mine, me, grander style

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the Three Questions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg18442:9:16
# text = All that there is in this broad land is mine by right; and how do you dare to put me to shame by living in grander style than I?
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	conj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	shame	shame	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
24	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	grander	grand	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present |  | All |  | this broad land; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | mine |  |  |  | by right | tree rules |
| 3 | **dare** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **put** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **shame** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **live** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  | grander style |  | than I | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in style=Location |

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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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