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title: By nine o'clock, five hundred men will be around you ready to be led… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: By nine o'clock, five hundred men will be around you ready to be led into battle. Who acts: hundred men. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Beggar., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 21

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By nine o'clock, five hundred men will be around you ready to be led into battle.

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**Who acts:** hundred men · **What happens:** be, lead · **To what, where:** battle

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This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Beggar.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundred men), 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:pg18442:4:21
# text = By nine o'clock, five hundred men will be around you ready to be led into battle.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	compound	_	_
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
8	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
10	around	around	ADP	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | future | hundred men |  |  |  |  | by nine o'clock; ready *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lead** | to-infinitive · passive | hundred men *not said here* |  |  | battle |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: into battle=Destination |

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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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