Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Diogenes the Wise Man., sentence 2

Men came from all parts of the land to see him and hear him talk.

Who acts: Men, man · What happens: come, see, hear, talk · To what, where: parts, 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 (Men, 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	Men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 parts	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 parts	det
5	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 land	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 land	det
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 parts	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 see	mark
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 came	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 see	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hear	cc
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 see	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hear	obj
15	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hear	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	Men		all parts of the land	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from part=Initial_Location
2	see	to-infinitive	Men not said here	man		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	hear	infinitive	Men not said here	man		tree rules
4	talk	infinitive	man not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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