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description: I will break the lines, and then let every man fight as bravely as he can." Who acts: I, man. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Arnold Winkelried., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Arnold Winkelried., sentence 26

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I will break the lines, and then let every man fight as bravely as he can."

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**Who acts:** I, man · **What happens:** break, let, fight · **To what, where:** lines, man

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Arnold Winkelried.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, man), 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:pg18442:24:26
# text = I will break the lines, and then let every man fight as bravely as he can."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
13	as	as	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | future | I | the lines |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer line=Patient |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive | I *not said here* | every man |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fight** | infinitive | every man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | bravely *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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