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title: A dart thrown by one of Porsena's soldiers put out his left eye; but… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: A dart thrown by one of Porsena's soldiers put out his left eye; but he did not falter. Who acts: dart. 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 26

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A dart thrown by one of Porsena's soldiers put out his left eye; but he did not falter.

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**Who acts:** dart · **What happens:** throw, put out, not falter · **To what, where:** dart, left eye

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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 (dart), 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:pg18442:31:26
# text = A dart thrown by one of Porsena's soldiers put out his left eye; but he did not falter.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dart	dart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Porsena	Porsena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	falter	falter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | participle |  | a dart *not said here* |  |  |  | by one; of Porsena's soldiers | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by one=Destination |
| 2 | **put out** | past | a dart | Porsena's left eye |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent eye=Goal |
| 3 | **not** **falter** | past · do-support | dart |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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