Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Diogenes the Wise Man., sentence 15
When he saw the king and a great many people coming, he sat up and looked at Alexander.
Who acts: man, great many people · What happens: see, come, sit up, look · To what, where: king
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, great many people), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sat | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 people | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 people | amod |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 people | amod |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 king | conj |
| 11 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 people | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sat | nsubj |
| 14 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 sat | compound:prt |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looked | cc |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sat | conj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 Alexander | case |
| 19 | Alexander | Alexander | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 looked | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | man | the king and a great many people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | a great many people not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | sit up | past | man | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | look | past | man not said here | at Alexander | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at alexander=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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