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title: It so happened after a while, that Reg-u-lus was taken pris-on-er an… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: It so happened after a while, that Reg-u-lus was taken pris-on-er and carried to Carthage. Who acts: It. 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 6

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It so happened after a while, that Reg-u-lus was taken pris-on-er and carried to Carthage.

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**Who acts:** It · **What happens:** happen, take, carry · **To what, where:** Reg u lus, er, Carthage

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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 (It), 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:pg18442:28:6
# text = It so happened after a while, that Reg-u-lus was taken pris-on-er and carried to Carthage.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
9	Reg	Reg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	u	u	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	lus	lu	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
16	pris	pris	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Carthage	Carthage	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | It |  |  |  | while |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past · passive |  | Reg u lus |  | er |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme pris=Destination |
| 3 | **carry** | past |  |  | Carthage |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to carthage=Destination |

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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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