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title: Some fought with swords, some with daggers, and some with only their… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Some fought with swords, some with daggers, and some with only their fists and teeth. Who acts: Some. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Brave Three Hundred., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 24

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Some fought with swords, some with daggers, and some with only their fists and teeth.

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**Who acts:** Some · **What happens:** fight

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Brave Three Hundred.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some), 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:pg18442:39:24
# text = Some fought with swords, some with daggers, and some with only their fists and teeth.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	daggers	dagger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	only	only	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	fists	fist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past | Some |  |  |  |  | with swords and some daggers | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with sword=Co-Agent |

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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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