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title: Every day a hundred noble men sat down with him to dine; and fifty b… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Every day a hundred noble men sat down with him to dine; and fifty brave knights, in fine velvet coats and gold chains, waited upon him at his table. Who acts: hundred noble men, fifty brave knights. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the Three Questions., with its depe
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 5

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Every day a hundred noble men sat down with him to dine; and fifty brave knights, in fine velvet coats and gold chains, waited upon him at his table.

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**Who acts:** hundred noble men, fifty brave knights · **What happens:** sit down, dine, wait · **To what, where:** table

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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 (hundred noble men, fifty brave knights), 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:pg18442:9:5
# text = Every day a hundred noble men sat down with him to dine; and fifty brave knights, in fine velvet coats and gold chains, waited upon him at his table.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	dine	dine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
15	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
16	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	coats	coat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	appos	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	chains	chain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
27	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
28	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | hundred noble men |  |  |  | day | with king | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **dine** | to-infinitive | hundred noble men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wait** | past | fifty brave knights |  |  | king's table |  | upon king | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=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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