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title: But very early one morning, the sheriff with a party of fierce soldi… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Other Wise Men of Gotham., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 28

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But very early one morning, the sheriff with a party of fierce soldiers rode through the woods, and between the fields, toward Gotham.

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**Who acts:** sheriff · **What happens:** ride · **To what, where:** woods

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:15:28
# text = But very early one morning, the sheriff with a party of fierce soldiers rode through the woods, and between the fields, toward Gotham.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sheriff	sheriff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Gotham	Gotham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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