Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Diogenes the Wise Man., sentence 10
When Alexander the Great went to Cor-inth, all the fore-most men in the city came out to see him and to praise him.
Who acts: Alexander, fore most men · What happens: go, come out, see, praise · To what, where: Cor inth, man
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 (Alexander, fore most men), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 went | mark |
| 2 | Alexander | Alexander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Great | det |
| 4 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Alexander | amod |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 inth | case |
| 7 | Cor | Cor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 inth | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Cor | punct |
| 9 | inth | inth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 men | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 men | det |
| 13 | fore | fore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 men | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 fore | punct |
| 15 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 men | amod |
| 16 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 came | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 city | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 city | det |
| 19 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 men | nmod |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | out | out | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 see | mark |
| 23 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 came | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 see | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 praise | cc |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 praise | mark |
| 27 | praise | praise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 see | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 praise | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Alexander | Cor inth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inth=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | all fore most men in the city | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | all fore most men in the city not said here | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | praise | to-infinitive | all fore most men in the city not said here | man | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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.
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