Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Diogenes the Wise Man., sentence 23
When he turned to ride back, he said to his officers,--
Who acts: Diogenes · What happens: turn, ride back, say · To what, where: officers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Diogenes), 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 turned | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 ride | mark |
| 5 | ride | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 turned | xcomp |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 ride | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 officers | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 officers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Diogenes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ride back | to-infinitive | Diogenes not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Diogenes | Diogenes's officers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to officer=Recipient |
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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