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title: Then the sheriff rode on with his men; but every one that they met w… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the sheriff rode on with his men; but every one that they met was doing some silly thing. Who acts: sheriff, men, one. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Other Wise Men of Gotham., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 63

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

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

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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, men, one), 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:pg18442:15:63
# text = Then the sheriff rode on with his men; but every one that they met was doing some silly thing.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sheriff	sheriff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
19	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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 |

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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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