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title: At the same moment a Scottish soldier climbed off a ladder and leape… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: At the same moment a Scottish soldier climbed off a ladder and leaped upon the wall; and then there came another and another and another, until the wall was covered with them. Who acts: Scottish soldier, another. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Black Douglas., with 
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Black Douglas., sentence 31

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At the same moment a Scottish soldier climbed off a ladder and leaped upon the wall; and then there came another and another and another, until the wall was covered with them.

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**Who acts:** Scottish soldier, another · **What happens:** climb, leap, come, cover · **To what, where:** ladder, wall

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Black Douglas.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scottish soldier, another), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg18442:354`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:13:31
# text = At the same moment a Scottish soldier climbed off a ladder and leaped upon the wall; and then there came another and another and another, until the wall was covered with them.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Scottish	Scottish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ladder	ladder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	nsubj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | past | a Scottish soldier |  |  | a ladder | moment |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off ladder=Trajectory |
| 2 | **leap** | past | a Scottish soldier *not said here* |  |  | the wall |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon wall=Trajectory |
| 3 | **come** | past | another |  |  | there | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **cover** | past · passive |  | the wall |  |  |  | with soldiers *= soldier* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with they=Theme |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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