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title: Every man in Rome was a soldier, and the army which went out to figh… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Every man in Rome was a soldier, and the army which went out to fight the robbers was the finest in the world. Who acts: man, army. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Cincinnatus., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 12

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Every man in Rome was a soldier, and the army which went out to fight the robbers was the finest in the world.

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**Who acts:** man, army · **What happens:** be, go out, fight · **To what, where:** soldier, robbers, world

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Cincinnatus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, army), 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:pg18442:27:12
# text = Every man in Rome was a soldier, and the army which went out to fight the robbers was the finest in the world.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	out	out	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	appos	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is a** | past | every man in Rome | a soldier |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go out** | past | the army |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fight** | to-infinitive | the army *not said here* | the robbers |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **is** | past | the army |  |  | the world |  | fine *property* | tree rules |

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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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