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title: And now the Roman army, with the boys and the guards, was coming hom… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: And now the Roman army, with the boys and the guards, was coming home with banners flying, and shouts of vic-to-ry; and at their head rode Cincinnatus. Who acts: Roman army, banners. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Cincinnatus., with its dependency tree and
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 52

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And now the Roman army, with the boys and the guards, was coming home with banners flying, and shouts of vic-to-ry; and at their head rode Cincinnatus.

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**Who acts:** Roman army, banners · **What happens:** come, fly, shout, ride · **To what, where:** Cincinnatus, head

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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 (Roman army, banners), 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:pg18442:27:52
# text = And now the Roman army, with the boys and the guards, was coming home with banners flying, and shouts of vic-to-ry; and at their head rode Cincinnatus.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
16	home	home	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	banners	banner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	vic	Vic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	ry	ry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
34	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
35	Cincinnatus	Cincinnatus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **come** | past · progressive | the Roman army |  |  |  |  | with banners; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund | banners *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **shout** *speech: express* | present |  |  |  |  |  | of vic | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ride** | past |  | Cincinnatus |  | banners's head |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cincinnatus=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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