--- title: Then the abbot rode down to Cam-bridge, where there was another u-ni… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics description: Then the abbot rode down to Cam-bridge, where there was another u-ni-ver-si-ty. Who acts: abbot. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, I. the Three Questions., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/9/31/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/) / [I. the Three Questions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/9/) / 31 # 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg18442:9:31 # text = Then the abbot rode down to Cam-bridge, where there was another u-ni-ver-si-ty. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 abbot abbot NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 down down ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 Cam cam NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 13 advmod _ _ 12 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 13 expl _ _ 13 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 17 det _ _ 15 u u NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ni no NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ver ver NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 si si NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ty ty NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 24 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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. - ← previous: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/9/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/9/32/) - ↑ back to [I. the Three Questions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/9/)