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title: The famous "The British are coming!" version comes mostly from a poe… — Ancient times and famous stories · tree and pragmatics
description: The famous "The British are coming!" version comes mostly from a poem written in 1860, long after the ride. Who acts: British, famous version. A sentence of the lesson «Ancient times and famous stories» of the myths course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Ancient times and famous stories, sentence 15

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The famous "The British are coming!" version comes mostly from a poem written in 1860, long after the ride.

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**Who acts:** British, famous version · **What happens:** come, write · **To what, where:** poem, 1860 · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient times and famous stories» of the myths course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (British, famous version), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson:15
# text = The famous "The British are coming!" version comes mostly from a poem written in 1860, long after the ride.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
2	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	British	British	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
10	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1860	1860	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the British |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | present | the famous version |  |  | a poem |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from poem=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **write** | participle |  | a poem *not said here* |  | 1860 | after the ride |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in 1860=Destination |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:myths:021-ancient-times-and-famous-stories.lesson:15`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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