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title: So Cincinnatus left his plow standing where it was, and hurried to t… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: So Cincinnatus left his plow standing where it was, and hurried to the city. Who acts: Cincinnatus, plow. 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 45

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So Cincinnatus left his plow standing where it was, and hurried to the city.

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**Who acts:** Cincinnatus, plow · **What happens:** leave, stand, be, hurry · **To what, where:** plow, 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 (Cincinnatus, plow), 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:pg18442:27:45
# text = So Cincinnatus left his plow standing where it was, and hurried to the city.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Cincinnatus	Cincinnatus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	plow	plow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | Cincinnatus | Cincinnatus's plow |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plow=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund | Cincinnatus's plow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **be** | past | plow |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hurry** | participle | Cincinnatus *not said here* |  |  | the city |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to city=Destination |

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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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