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title: First the Romans would gain a battle, and then the men of Car-thage… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: First the Romans would gain a battle, and then the men of Car-thage would gain a battle; and so the war went on for many years. Who acts: Romans, men, war. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Regulus., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Regulus., sentence 4

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First the Romans would gain a battle, and then the men of Car-thage would gain a battle; and so the war went on for many years.

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**Who acts:** Romans, men, war · **What happens:** gain, go on · **To what, where:** battle

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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 (Romans, men, war), 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:pg18442:28:4
# text = First the Romans would gain a battle, and then the men of Car-thage would gain a battle; and so the war went on for many years.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	thage	thage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	gain	gain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
27	on	on	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | would | the Romans | a battle |  |  |  | first *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme |
| 2 | **gain** | would | the men of Car thage | a battle |  |  | then |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Theme |
| 3 | **go on** | past | the war |  |  |  | year |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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