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title: And as they marched into the church, all in a row, the fore-most amo… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: And as they marched into the church, all in a row, the fore-most among them was Allin-a-Dale. Who acts: men, most. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, A Story of Robin Hood., sentence 60

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And as they marched into the church, all in a row, the fore-most among them was Allin-a-Dale.

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**Who acts:** men, most · **What happens:** march, be · **To what, where:** church, fore Allin Dale

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, A Story of Robin Hood.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, most), 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:pg18442:11:60
# text = And as they marched into the church, all in a row, the fore-most among them was Allin-a-Dale.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	marched	march	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
15	fore	fore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	nsubj	_	_
18	among	among	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
21	Allin	Allin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Dale	Dale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **march** | past | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | into the church *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into church=Result |
| 2 | **is a** | past | most among men | the fore Allin Dale |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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