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title: But he armed the guards and the boys, and went out at their head to… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: But he armed the guards and the boys, and went out at their head to fight the fierce mountain men, and free the Roman army from the trap into which it had fallen. Who acts: Cincinnatus, army. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Cincinnatus., with its dependency
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 47

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But he armed the guards and the boys, and went out at their head to fight the fierce mountain men, and free the Roman army from the trap into which it had fallen.

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**Who acts:** Cincinnatus, army · **What happens:** arm, go out, fight, fall · **To what, where:** guards, trap, head, fierce mountain men

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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, 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:pg18442:27:47
# text = But he armed the guards and the boys, and went out at their head to fight the fierce mountain men, and free the Roman army from the trap into which it had fallen.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	armed	arm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obl	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arm** | past | Cincinnatus | the guards and the boys |  | the trap |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient |
| 2 | **go out** | past | Cincinnatus *not said here* |  |  | boys's head |  |  | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fight** | to-infinitive | Cincinnatus *not said here* | the fierce mountain men |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **fall** | past · perfect | army |  |  | the trap |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into which=Result |

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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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