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title: They had sent into other countries to hire soldiers to help them; bu… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 11

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They had sent into other countries to hire soldiers to help them; but even with these they would not be able to fight much longer against Rome.

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**Who acts:** people, these · **What happens:** send, hire, help, not be, fight · **To what, where:** people, other countries, soldiers

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Regulus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, these), 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:pg18442:28:11
# text = They had sent into other countries to hire soldiers to help them; but even with these they would not be able to fight much longer against Rome.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hire	hire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
9	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	much	much	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
27	against	against	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · perfect · passive |  | people |  | other countries |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hire** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | soldiers |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | people *not said here* | people |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **not** **is** | would | these |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fight** | to-infinitive | these *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against Rome; long *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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