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title: Now there lived among the mountains, not far away, a tribe of fierce… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Now there lived among the mountains, not far away, a tribe of fierce, half-wild men, who were at war with the Roman people. Who acts: fierce wild men. 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 8

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Now there lived among the mountains, not far away, a tribe of fierce, half-wild men, who were at war with the Roman people.

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**Who acts:** fierce wild men · **What happens:** live, be · **To what, where:** tribe, mountains, war

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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 (fierce wild men), 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:pg18442:27:8
# text = Now there lived among the mountains, not far away, a tribe of fierce, half-wild men, who were at war with the Roman people.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | participle |  | a tribe of fierce wild men |  | the mountains; there | now | away *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among mountain=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | fierce wild men |  |  | war |  | with the Roman people | 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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