Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 63

Then the sheriff rode on with his men; but every one that they met was doing some silly thing.

Who acts: sheriff, men, one · What happens: ride on, meet, do · To what, where: one, silly thing

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, men, one), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 rode	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sheriff	det
3	sheriff	sheriff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 rode	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 men	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 men	nmod:poss
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rode	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 doing	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 doing	cc
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 doing	nsubj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 met	obj
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 met	nsubj
15	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 one	acl:relcl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 doing	aux
17	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 rode	conj
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 thing	det
19	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thing	amod
20	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 doing	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ride on	past	the sheriff		then	with sheriff's men	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	meet	past	men = man	every one			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Co-Agent
3	do	past · progressive	every one	some silly thing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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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