Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Diogenes the Wise Man., sentence 5
And so he did not live in a house, but slept in a tub or barrel, which he rolled about from place to place.
Who acts: man · What happens: not live, sleep, roll about · To what, where: house, tub, barrel
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 live | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 live | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 live | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 live | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 live | advmod |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 slept | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 slept | cc |
| 12 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 live | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 tub | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 tub | det |
| 15 | tub | tub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slept | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 barrel | cc |
| 17 | barrel | barrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tub | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rolled | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 rolled | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 rolled | nsubj |
| 21 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 barrel | acl:relcl |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 place | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rolled | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 place | case |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 place | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not live | past · do-support | man | a house | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | ||||
| 2 | sleep | past | man not said here | a tub or barrel | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tub=Location | ||||
| 3 | roll about | past | man | barrel | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent which=Theme place=Result |
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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