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title: He was a brave warrior, and had con-quered many countries for Rome. — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He was a brave warrior, and had con-quered many countries for Rome. Who acts: man. 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 4

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He was a brave warrior, and had con-quered many countries for Rome.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, conquer · **To what, where:** brave warrior, many countries

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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 (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg18442:983`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:32:4
# text = He was a brave warrior, and had con-quered many countries for Rome.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	con	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	_
11	quered	quered	X	GW	_	9	goeswith	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Rome	Rome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | man | a brave warrior |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **conquer** | past · perfect | man *not said here* | many countries |  |  |  | for Rome | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Patient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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