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title: They rode with great speed; and both men and horses were covered wit… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: They rode with great speed; and both men and horses were covered with dust and blood. Who acts: mountains. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Cincinnatus., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 16

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They rode with great speed; and both men and horses were covered with dust and blood.

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**Who acts:** mountains · **What happens:** ride, cover · **To what, where:** men

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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), 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:pg18442:27:16
# text = They rode with great speed; and both men and horses were covered with dust and blood.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | mountains *= mountain* |  |  |  |  | with great speed | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **cover** | past · passive |  | both men and horses |  |  |  | with dust and blood | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with dust=Theme |

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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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