Fifty Famous Stories Retold, I. the Three Questions., sentence 31

Then the abbot rode down to Cam-bridge, where there was another u-ni-ver-si-ty.

Who acts: abbot · What happens: ride down, be · To what, where: Cam bridge, u ni

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the Three Questions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (abbot), 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 abbot	det
3	abbot	abbot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	nsubj
4	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 rode	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 bridge	case
7	Cam	cam	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bridge	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Cam	punct
9	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rode	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 was	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 was	advmod
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rode	conj
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	17 ni	det
15	u	u	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ni	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 u	punct
17	ni	no	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 was	obj
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 ver	punct
19	ver	ver	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ni	appos
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 si	punct
21	si	si	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ver	conj
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 ty	punct
23	ty	ty	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 si	appos
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride down	past	the abbot			Cam bridge	then		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to bridge=Trajectory
2	be	past	the abbot not said here	another u ni		there			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot no=Theme

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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