Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 19

They did not answer him, but rode into the city and along the quiet streets; and everybody ran after them, eager to find out what was the matter.

Who acts: mountains, everybody · What happens: not answer, ride, run, find out, be · To what, where: watchman, city, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (mountains, everybody), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 answer	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 answer	advmod
4	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 answer	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rode	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 rode	cc
8	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	parataxis
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 city	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 city	det
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rode	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 streets	cc
13	along	along	ADP	_	16 streets	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 streets	det
15	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 streets	amod
16	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 city	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 ran	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ran	cc
19	everybody	everybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	20 ran	nsubj
20	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rode	conj
21	after	after	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 ran	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 eager	punct
24	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ran	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 find	mark
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 eager	xcomp
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 find	compound:prt
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 matter	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 matter	cop
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 matter	det
31	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 find	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	not answer speech: assert	past · do-support	mountains = mountain		watchman			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
2	ride	past				the city and the quiet streets		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into city=Trajectory
3	run	past	everybody				after mountains = mountain	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find out	to-infinitive	everybody not said here					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past		the matter				tree rules

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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