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title: "And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the walls of Rome: 'O… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: "And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the walls of Rome: 'O Tiber! father Tiber! Who acts: dart, spake. 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 29

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"And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the walls of Rome: 'O Tiber! father Tiber!

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**Who acts:** dart, spake · **What happens:** speak, roll · **To what, where:** father Tiber · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, spake), 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:pg18442:31:29
# text = "And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the walls of Rome: 'O Tiber! father Tiber!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
10	rolls	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	19	case	_	_
19	Tiber	Tiber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
21	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Tiber	Tiber	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* |  | dart |  |  |  |  | to the noble river | tree rules |
| 2 | **roll** *in a quote* | present | spake | father Tiber |  |  |  | by the walls of Rome | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wall=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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