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title: "With weeping and with laugh-ter, Still was the story told, How well… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: "With weeping and with laugh-ter, Still was the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old." Who acts: Still, Horatius. 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 43

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"With weeping and with laugh-ter, Still was the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old."

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**Who acts:** Still, Horatius · **What happens:** be, tell, keep · **To what, where:** story, bridge · **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 (Still, Horatius), 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:pg18442:31:43
# text = "With weeping and with laugh-ter, Still was the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	ter	ter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	Still	Still	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
14	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
18	Horatius	Horatius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	In	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Still | the story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with weeping and laugh ter and the story | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | past | Horatius | the bridge |  |  | day | well *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=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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