Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Diogenes the Wise Man., sentence 1

At Cor-inth, in Greece, there lived a very wise man whose name was Di-og'e-nes.

Who acts: wise man, Di og'e nes · What happens: live, be, name · To what, where: Cor inth, Di og'e nes

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Diogenes the Wise Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise man, Di og'e nes), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 inth	case
2	Cor	Cor	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 inth	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Cor	punct
4	inth	inth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lived	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Greece	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Greece	case
7	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 inth	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 inth	punct
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 lived	expl
10	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 wise	advmod
13	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 nes	nsubj
15	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	16 name	nmod:poss
16	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 nes	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 nes	cop
18	Di	Di	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 nes	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 Di	punct
20	og'e	og'e	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 nes	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 og'e	punct
22	nes	ne	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lived	parataxis
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	live	past			Cor inth; there	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at inth=Location
2	is a	past	a wise man	Di og'e nes		tree rules
3	name		Di og'e nes			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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