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title: But just then Porsena's horsemen dashed toward them again. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: But just then Porsena's horsemen dashed toward them again. Who acts: horsemen. 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 18

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But just then Porsena's horsemen dashed toward them again.

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**Who acts:** horsemen · **What happens:** dash

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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 (horsemen), 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:pg18442:31:18
# text = But just then Porsena's horsemen dashed toward them again.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
4	Porsena	Porsena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dash** | past | Porsena's horsemen |  |  |  | then; again | toward lives *= life* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward they=Trajectory |

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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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