Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Diogenes the Wise Man., sentence 6

He spent his days sitting in the sun, and saying wise things to those who were around him.

Who acts: man · What happens: spend, sit, say, be · To what, where: sun, wise things, those · 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	2 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 days	nmod:poss
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spent	obj
5	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 spent	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sun	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sun	det
8	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sitting	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 saying	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 saying	cc
11	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 sitting	conj
12	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 things	amod
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 saying	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 those	case
15	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 saying	obl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 him	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 him	cop
18	around	around	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 those	acl:relcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	man				day		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sit	gerund	man not said here			the sun			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location
3	say speech: assert	gerund	man not said here	wise things	those				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Topic to that=Recipient
4	is	past						around man	tree rules

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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