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title: But it was not many days until he had gath-ered his men to-geth-er a… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: But it was not many days until he had gath-ered his men to-geth-er again, and had beaten the Danes in a great battle. Who acts: supper, king, many days. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Cakes., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Cakes., sentence 33

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But it was not many days until he had gath-ered his men to-geth-er again, and had beaten the Danes in a great battle.

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**Who acts:** supper, king, many days · **What happens:** be, have, er, beat · **To what, where:** many days, gath, men, Danes

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Cakes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (supper, king, many days), 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:pg18442:3:33
# text = But it was not many days until he had gath-ered his men to-geth-er again, and had beaten the Danes in a great battle.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
10	gath	gath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	ered	er	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	geth	geth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	er	er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	parataxis	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Danes	Dane	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | supper | many days |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | king | gath |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gath=Patient |
| 3 | **er** | past | many days | king's men |  |  | again | to geth er | tree rules |
| 4 | **beat** | past · perfect |  | the Danes |  |  |  | in a great battle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent dane=Patient in battle=Topic |

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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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