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title: The men armed themselves, and made haste to go out and drive back th… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: The men armed themselves, and made haste to go out and drive back their foe; and the women staid at home, weeping and waiting, and trembling with fear. Who acts: men, haste. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Brave Three Hundred., with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Brave Three Hundred., sentence 8

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The men armed themselves, and made haste to go out and drive back their foe; and the women staid at home, weeping and waiting, and trembling with fear.

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**Who acts:** men, haste · **What happens:** arm, make, go out, drive back, weep, wait · **To what, where:** men, haste, foe

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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 (men, haste), 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:pg18442:39:8
# text = The men armed themselves, and made haste to go out and drive back their foe; and the women staid at home, weeping and waiting, and trembling with fear.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	armed	arm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
11	out	out	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
14	back	back	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	staid	staid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	appos	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	conj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arm** | past | the men | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient |
| 2 | **make** | past | the men *not said here* | haste |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go out** | to-infinitive | haste *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drive back** | infinitive | haste *not said here* | men's foe |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme foe=Trajectory |
| 5 | **weep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **tremble** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with fear | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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