Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Diogenes the Wise Man., sentence 12

And so, since the wise man would not come to see the king, the king went to see the wise man.

Who acts: wise man, king · What happens: not come, see, go · To what, where: king, wise 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 (wise man, king), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 come	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct
4	since	since	SCONJ	_	10 come	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 come	advmod
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 see	mark
12	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 come	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 see	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 king	det
17	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 king	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 see	mark
20	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 went	xcomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 see	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not come	would	the wise man		tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	the wise man not said here	the king	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus
3	go	past	the king	the king not said here	tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	the king not said here	the wise man	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=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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