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title: Then Porsena's men shouted also, for they had never seen a man so br… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Porsena's men shouted also, for they had never seen a man so brave and strong as Horatius. Who acts: men. 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 38

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Then Porsena's men shouted also, for they had never seen a man so brave and strong as Horatius.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** shout, not see · **To what, where:** man

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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 (men), 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:pg18442:31:38
# text = Then Porsena's men shouted also, for they had never seen a man so brave and strong as Horatius.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	Porsena	Porsena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Horatius	Horatius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | Porsena's men |  |  |  | then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | men *= man* | a man |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |

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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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