Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Diogenes the Wise Man., sentence 4
He did not believe that any man ought to have more things than he re-al-ly needed; and he said that no man needed much.
Who acts: man · What happens: not believe, have, need, say · To what, where: more things · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 believe | advmod |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | nsubj |
| 8 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 believe | ccomp |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 things | amod |
| 12 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 needed | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 needed | nsubj |
| 15 | re-al-ly | re-al-ly | ADV | _ | 16 needed | advmod |
| 16 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 things | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 needed | mark |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 man | det |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 needed | nsubj |
| 24 | needed | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | ccomp |
| 25 | much | much | ADV | _ | 24 needed | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not believe | past · do-support | man | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | have | ought | any man | more things | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | need | past | man | more things not said here | re-al-ly property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | need | past | no man | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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