Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 6
Have you never yet heard that a fool may teach a wise man wit?
Who acts: you, fool · What happens: not hear, teach · To what, where: wise man wit
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Three Answers.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fool), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 heard | advmod |
| 4 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 5 heard | advmod |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 teach | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fool | det |
| 8 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 teach | nsubj |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 teach | aux |
| 10 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 heard | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wit | det |
| 12 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wit | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wit | compound |
| 14 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 teach | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not hear | present · perfect | you | yet | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | may | a fool | a wise man wit | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wit=Recipient |
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.
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