Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 15
But one morning five horsemen came riding down the road from the mountains.
What happens: come, ride down · To what, where: road, mountains
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Cincinnatus.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 morning | nummod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 horsemen | nummod |
| 5 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 morning | obj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 came | advcl |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 road | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 road | det |
| 10 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 riding | obl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 mountains | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mountains | det |
| 13 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 riding | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ride down | gerund | the road | the mountains | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent road=Theme from mountain=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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