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title: There were not more than fifty of them, all together, and they were… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: fifty. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Julius Caesar., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Julius Caesar., sentence 11

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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.

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**Who acts:** fifty · **What happens:** be, lead, tell, do · **To what, where:** children, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Julius Caesar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fifty), 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:pg18442:32:11
# text = 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.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	6	advmod	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	4	fixed	_	_
6	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
17	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	obj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | fifty of children |  |  | there |  | together *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | past · passive |  | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  | each one |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Recipient |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive |  | each one |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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