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title: They did not answer him, but rode into the city and along the quiet… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Story of Cincinnatus., with its dependency tree and the 
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Story of Cincinnatus., sentence 19

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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.

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

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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, everybody), 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:pg18442:27:19
# text = 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.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	along	along	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	20	nsubj	_	_
20	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	after	after	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	out	out	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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