Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Diogenes the Wise Man., sentence 3
But wise as he was, he had some very queer ways.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, have · To what, where: queer ways
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 wise | cc |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 was | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wise | advcl |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 ways | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 queer | advmod |
| 11 | queer | queer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ways | amod |
| 12 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 had | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | man | some queer ways | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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