Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 22

Then one, whose name was Dobbin, and who was thought to be the wisest of them all, said, "Let me tell you something.

Who acts: name, Dobbin · What happens: be, think, say, let, tell, name · To what, where: Dobbin, something, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (name, Dobbin), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 one	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 said	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Dobbin	punct
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	5 name	nmod:poss
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Dobbin	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Dobbin	cop
7	Dobbin	Dobbin	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thought	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thought	cc
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 thought	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thought	aux:pass
12	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 Dobbin	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	16 wisest	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 wisest	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wisest	det
16	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 thought	ccomp
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wisest	nmod
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 them	nmod:unmarked
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Dobbin	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Let	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 Let	punct
24	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 Let	obj
26	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 Let	xcomp
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 tell	iobj
28	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 tell	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dobbin's name	Dobbin			tree rules
2	think speech: other	past · passive		Dobbin			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is	to-infinitive				of others = other; wise property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	Dobbin				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	let in a quote	infinitive		Dobbin			tree rules
6	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Dobbin not said here	something	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic
7	name		Dobbin				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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