Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Diogenes the Wise Man., sentence 14
He was en-joy-ing the heat and the light of the sun.
Who acts: man · What happens: e, light · To what, where: heat, sun.
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 | 7 ing | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ing | aux |
| 3 | en | en | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ing | amod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 en | punct |
| 5 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ing | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 ing | punct |
| 7 | ing | e | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heat | det |
| 9 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ing | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 light | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 light | det |
| 12 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ing | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 sun. | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sun. | det |
| 15 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 light | nmod |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | e | past · progressive | man | the heat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | light | the sun. | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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