Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Diogenes the Wise Man., sentence 13

He found Diogenes in an out-of-the-way place, lying on the ground by his tub.

Who acts: man · What happens: find, lie · To what, where: Diogenes, way place, ground

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 (man), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Diogenes	Diogenes	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	13 place	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 place	det
6	out	out	ADP	_	13 place	case
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 out	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	13 place	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 of	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 place	det
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 the	punct
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 place	compound
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lying	punct
15	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 found	advcl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 ground	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lying	obl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 tub	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 tub	nmod:poss
21	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lying	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	man	Diogenes		a way place			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diogenes=Topic
2	lie	gerund	man not said here			the ground		by man's tub	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location

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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