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title: I, with the two men who stand by me, will keep the foe at bay." — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: I, with the two men who stand by me, will keep the foe at bay." Who acts: two men, I. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Horatius At the Bridge., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Horatius At the Bridge., sentence 13

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I, with the two men who stand by me, will keep the foe at bay."

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**Who acts:** two men, I · **What happens:** stand, keep · **To what, where:** foe, bay

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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 (two men, I), 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:pg18442:31:13
# text = I, with the two men who stand by me, will keep the foe at bay."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stand	stand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | the two men |  |  |  |  | by me | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by i=Location |
| 2 | **keep** | future | I | the foe |  | bay |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent foe=Theme at bay=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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