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title: Among the Romans there was a brave gen-er-al named Reg'u-lus,--a man… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the Romans there was a brave gen-er-al named Reg'u-lus,--a man of whom it was said that he never broke his word. Who acts: brave gen er al, last. 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 5

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Among the Romans there was a brave gen-er-al named Reg'u-lus,--a man of whom it was said that he never broke his word.

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**Who acts:** brave gen er al, last · **What happens:** be, name, say, not break, word · **To what, where:** Romans, Reg'u lus, war, word · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (brave gen er al, last), 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:pg18442:28:5
# text = Among the Romans there was a brave gen-er-al named Reg'u-lus,--a man of whom it was said that he never broke his word.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	_
5	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
7	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
8	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	al	al	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
13	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	Reg'u	Reg'u	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	lus	lu	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nmod	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a brave gen er al and a man of a brave gen er al and a man of a brave gen er al |  |  | the Romans; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among roman=Location |
| 2 | **name** | participle | a brave gen er al and a man of a brave gen er al and a man of a brave gen er al *not said here* | Reg'u lus |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lu=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | war |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **break** | past | last | last's word |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Patient |
| 5 | **word** |  | last |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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