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title: And now, O Roman Fathers! send help to our army at once, or every ma… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: And now, O Roman Fathers! send help to our army at once, or every man will be slain, and our city will be taken." Who acts: you, man. 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 29

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And now, O Roman Fathers! send help to our army at once, or every man will be slain, and our city will be taken."

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**Who acts:** you, man · **What happens:** send, be, take · **To what, where:** help, army, city

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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 (you, 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:pg18442:27:29
# text = And now, O Roman Fathers! send help to our army at once, or every man will be slain, and our city will be taken."
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	6	case	_	_
5	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
8	send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	slain	slain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | imperative | you *not said here* | help |  | our army | now | of Roman Fathers | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent help=Theme of father=Initial\_Location to army=Destination |
| 2 | **is** | future | every man |  |  |  |  | slain *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | future · passive |  | our city |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=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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