Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Other Wise Men of Gotham., sentence 62
You are the wisest man that I ever saw."
Who acts: You, I · What happens: be, see · To what, where: wisest man
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 (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 man | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | wisest | wise | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 saw | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 saw | advmod |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | You | the wisest man | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | I | the wisest man | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
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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