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title: Bucephalus carried him through many countries and in many fierce bat… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Bucephalus carried him through many countries and in many fierce battles, and more than once did he save his master's life. Who acts: Bucephalus, Alexander. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Alexander and Bucephalus., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Alexander and Bucephalus., sentence 26

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Bucephalus carried him through many countries and in many fierce battles, and more than once did he save his master's life.

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**Who acts:** Bucephalus, Alexander · **What happens:** carry, save · **To what, where:** Alexander, many countries, life

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Alexander and Bucephalus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bucephalus, Alexander), 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:pg18442:37:26
# text = Bucephalus carried him through many countries and in many fierce battles, and more than once did he save his master's life.
1	Bucephalus	Bucephalus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	obj	_	_
15	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	19	advmod	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | Bucephalus |  | Alexander | many countries and many fierce battles |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary more=Value |
| 2 | **save** | past · do-support | Alexander | Alexander's master's life |  |  |  | once *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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