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title: To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, Take thou i… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, Take thou in charge to-day.'" Who acts: Romans, you. 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 30

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To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, Take thou in charge to-day.'"

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**Who acts:** Romans, you · **What happens:** pray, take · **To what, where:** thou, charge

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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 (Romans, you), 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:pg18442:31:30
# text = To whom the Romans pray, A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, Take thou in charge to-day.'"
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Roman	Roman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Roman	Roman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | present | the Romans |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* | thou |  | charge | day |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme to whom=Destination |

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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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