Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Diogenes the Wise Man., sentence 17
"Diogenes, I have heard a great deal about your wisdom.
What happens: hear · To what, where: Diogenes
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: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Diogenes | punct |
| 2 | Diogenes | Diogenes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Diogenes | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | aux |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 deal | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 deal | amod |
| 9 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obj |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 wisdom | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 deal | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Diogenes | tree rules |
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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