--- title: Julius Caesar. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · full text with trees description: Julius Caesar., «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Nearly two thousand years ago there lived in Rome a man whose name was Julius Cae'sar. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/) / Julius Caesar. # Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar. of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin: the whole text, 29 sentences and 365 words. Every sentence has its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself; 2 of them are in the tales treebank and were checked by a teacher model. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/1/) — Nearly two thousand years ago there lived in Rome a man whose name was Julius Cae'sar. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/2/) — He was the greatest of all the Romans. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/3/) — Why was he so great? - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/4/) — He was a brave warrior, and had con-quered many countries for Rome. — checked by a teacher - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/5/) — He was wise in planning and in doing. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/6/) — He knew how to make men both love and fear him. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/7/) — At last he made himself the ruler of Rome. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/8/) — Some said that he wished to become its king. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/9/) — But the Romans at that time did not believe in kings. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/10/) — Once when Cae-sar was passing through a little country village, all the men, women, and children of the place came out to see him. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/11/) — There were not more than fifty of them, all together, and they were led by their may-or, who told each one what to do. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/12/) — These simple people stood by the roadside and watched Caesar pass. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/13/) — The may-or looked very proud and happy; for was he not the ruler of this village? — checked by a teacher - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/14/) — He felt that he was almost as great a man as Caesar himself. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/15/) — Some of the fine of-fi-cers who were with Caesar laughed. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/16/) — They said, "See how that fellow struts at the head of his little flock!" - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/17/) — "Laugh as you will," said Caesar, "he has reason to be proud. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/18/) — I would rather be the head man of a village than the second man in Rome!" - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/19/) — At an-oth-er time, Caesar was crossing a narrow sea in a boat. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/20/) — Before he was halfway to the farther shore, a storm overtook him. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/21/) — The wind blew hard; the waves dashed high; the lightning flashed; the thunder rolled. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/22/) — It seemed every minute as though the boat would sink. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/23/) — The captain was in great fright. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/24/) — He had crossed the sea many times, but never in such a storm as this. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/25/) — He trembled with fear; he could not guide the boat; he fell down upon his knees; he moaned, "All is lost! all is lost!" - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/26/) — But Caesar was not afraid. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/27/) — He bade the man get up and take his oars again. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/28/) — "Why should you be afraid?" he said. " - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/32/29/) — The boat will not be lost; for you have Caesar on board." - ← previous: [Horatius At the Bridge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/31/) - next →: [The Sword of Damocles.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/33/) - ↑ back to [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/)