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title: Once there was a war between the Roman people and the E-trus'cans wh… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Once there was a war between the Roman people and the E-trus'cans who lived in the towns on the other side of the Ti-ber River. Who acts: war, Roman people. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Horatius At the Bridge., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 1

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Once there was a war between the Roman people and the E-trus'cans who lived in the towns on the other side of the Ti-ber River.

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**Who acts:** war, Roman people · **What happens:** be, live · **To what, where:** towns

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Horatius At the Bridge.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war, Roman people), 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:pg18442:31:1
# text = Once there was a war between the Roman people and the E-trus'cans who lived in the towns on the other side of the Ti-ber River.
1	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Roman	roman	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	E-trus'cans	E-trus'can	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	Ti	Ti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	ber	ber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a war between the Roman people and the E-trus'cans |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | the Roman people and the E-trus'cans |  |  | the towns |  | on the other side of the Ti ber River | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location |

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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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