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title: But Napoleon waited only to see that everything was in good order, a… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps., sentence 10

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But Napoleon waited only to see that everything was in good order, and then he gave the order to march.

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**Who acts:** Napoleon, everything · **What happens:** wait, see, be, give, march · **To what, where:** good order, order · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Napoleon, everything), 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:pg18442:26:10
# text = But Napoleon waited only to see that everything was in good order, and then he gave the order to march.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Napoleon	Napoleon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	march	march	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | Napoleon |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Napoleon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | everything |  |  | good order |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **give** | past | Napoleon | the order |  |  | then |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 5 | **march** | to-infinitive | Napoleon *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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