--- title: Three Men of Gotham. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · full text with trees description: Three Men of Gotham., «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: There is a town in England called Go-tham, and many merry stories are told of the queer people who used to live there. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/) / Three Men of Gotham. # Three Men of Gotham. Three Men of Gotham. of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole text, 29 sentences and 350 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/1/) — There is a town in England called Go-tham, and many merry stories are told of the queer people who used to live there. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/2/) — One day two men of Go-tham met on a bridge. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/3/) — Hodge was coming from the market, and Peter was going to the market. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/4/) — "Where are you going?" said Hodge. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/5/) — "I am going to the market to buy sheep," said Peter. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/6/) — "Buy sheep?" said Hodge. " - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/7/) — And which way will you bring them home?" - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/8/) — "I shall bring them over this bridge," said Peter. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/9/) — "No, you shall not," said Hodge. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/10/) — "Yes, but I will," said Peter. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/11/) — "You shall not," said Hodge. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/12/) — "I will," said Peter. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/13/) — Then they beat with their sticks on the ground as though there had been a hundred sheep between them. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/14/) — "Take care!" cried Peter. " - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/15/) — Look out that my sheep don't jump on the bridge." - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/16/) — "I care not where they jump," said Hodge; "but they shall not go over it." - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/17/) — "But they shall," said Peter. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/18/) — "Have a care," said Hodge; "for if you say too much, I will put my fingers in your mouth." - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/19/) — "Will you?" said Peter. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/20/) — Just then another man of Gotham came from the market with a sack of meal on his horse. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/21/) — He heard his neigh-bors quar-rel-ing about sheep; but he could see no sheep between them, and so he stopped and spoke to them. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/22/) — "Ah, you foolish fellows!" he cried. " - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/23/) — It is strange that you will never learn wisdom.--Come here, Peter, and help me lay my sack on my shoul-der." - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/24/) — Peter did so, and the man carried his meal to the side of the bridge. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/25/) — "Now look at me," he said, "and learn a lesson." - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/26/) — And he opened the mouth of the sack, and poured all the meal into the river. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/27/) — "Now, neighbors," he said, "can you tell how much meal is in my sack?" - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/28/) — "There is none at all!" cried Hodge and Peter together. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/14/29/) — "You are right," said the man; "and you that stand here and quarrel about nothing, have no more sense in your heads than I have meal in my sack!" - ← previous: [The Black Douglas.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/13/) - next →: [Other Wise Men of Gotham.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/15/) - ↑ back to [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/)