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title: Some came with bows and arrows, some with scythes and pitch-forks, a… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Some came with bows and arrows, some with scythes and pitch-forks, and some with only sticks and clubs. Who acts: Some. 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 7

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Some came with bows and arrows, some with scythes and pitch-forks, and some with only sticks and clubs.

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**Who acts:** Some · **What happens:** come

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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 (Some), 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:pg18442:24:7
# text = Some came with bows and arrows, some with scythes and pitch-forks, and some with only sticks and clubs.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bows	bow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	scythes	scythe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	forks	fork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	clubs	club	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Some |  |  |  |  | with bows and arrows and some scythes and pitch forks | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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