Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 28
But very early one morning, the sheriff with a party of fierce soldiers rode through the woods, and between the fields, toward Gotham.
Who acts: sheriff · What happens: ride · To what, where: woods
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Other Wise Men of Gotham.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheriff), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 rode | cc |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 early | advmod |
| 3 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 morning | amod |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 morning | compound |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rode | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 morning | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sheriff | det |
| 8 | sheriff | sheriff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rode | nsubj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 party | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 party | det |
| 11 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sheriff | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 soldiers | case |
| 13 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 soldiers | amod |
| 14 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 party | nmod |
| 15 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 woods | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woods | det |
| 18 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rode | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fields | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fields | cc |
| 21 | between | between | ADP | _ | 23 fields | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fields | det |
| 23 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rode | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Gotham | punct |
| 25 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 26 Gotham | case |
| 26 | Gotham | Gotham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 rode | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | the sheriff with a party of fierce soldiers | the woods | morning | between the fields; toward Gotham | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wood=Trajectory |
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.
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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