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title: For besides his three mayoralties of 1397, 1406, and 1419, he served… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For besides his three mayoralties of 1397, 1406, and 1419, he served as Lord Mayor in place of Adam Bamme, deceased, in the latter half of the mayoralty of 1396. Who acts: London. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXI. Dick Whittington., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# English Fairy Tales, XXXI. Dick Whittington., sentence 9

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For besides his three mayoralties of 1397, 1406, and 1419, he served as Lord Mayor in place of Adam Bamme, deceased, in the latter half of the mayoralty of 1396.

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**Who acts:** London · **What happens:** beside, serve, decease · **To what, where:** three mayoralties, latter half

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXI. Dick Whittington.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (London), 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:pg7439:81:9
# text = For besides his three mayoralties of 1397, 1406, and 1419, he served as Lord Mayor in place of Adam Bamme, deceased, in the latter half of the mayoralty of 1396.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	besides	beside	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	mayoralties	mayoralty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	1397	1397	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	1406	1406	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	1419	1419	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Mayor	Mayor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Adam	Adam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	Bamme	Bamme	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	deceased	decease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	25	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	mayoralty	mayoralty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	1396	1396	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beside** | present |  | London's three mayoralties of 1397 |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **serve** | past | London |  |  |  |  | as Lord Mayor; in place of Adam | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent in place=Attribute |
| 3 | **decease** | past | London *not said here* |  |  | the latter half of the mayoralty of 1396 |  |  | vn die-42.4 «NP V»: agent=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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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