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title: 'My judgment is that the garment shall belong wholly to whoever firs… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: 'My judgment is that the garment shall belong wholly to whoever first rings the bell of the nearest mosque at dawn to-morrow. Who acts: judgment, whoever, My. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 69

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'My judgment is that the garment shall belong wholly to whoever first rings the bell of the nearest mosque at dawn to-morrow.

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**Who acts:** judgment, whoever, My · **What happens:** be, ring, judge · **To what, where:** bell

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (judgment, whoever, My), 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:pg3027:18:69
# text = 'My judgment is that the garment shall belong wholly to whoever first rings the bell of the nearest mosque at dawn to-morrow.
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	belong	belong	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	wholly	wholly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	advmod	_	_
14	rings	ring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	mosque	mosque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | shall · present | My judgment |  |  |  |  | belong, wholly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **ring** | present | whoever | the bell of the nearest mosque at dawn to morrow |  |  |  | first *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme |
| 3 | **judge** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: poss=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:** «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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