Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Diogenes the Wise Man., sentence 7

At noon one day, Di-og-e-nes was seen walking through the streets with a lighted lantern, and looking all around as if in search of something.

Who acts: og e · What happens: see, walk, light, look, search · To what, where: og e, streets, something

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 (og e), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 noon	case
2	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seen	obl
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 noon	nmod:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 noon	punct
6	Di	Di	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 og	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Di	punct
8	og	og	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 e	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 og	punct
10	e	e	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seen	nsubj:pass
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 nes	punct
12	nes	ne	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 e	conj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 seen	aux:pass
14	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
15	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 seen	xcomp
16	through	through	ADP	_	18 streets	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 streets	det
18	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 walking	obl
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 lantern	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 lantern	det
21	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 lantern	amod
22	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 walking	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 looking	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 looking	cc
25	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 seen	advcl
26	all	all	ADV	_	27 around	advmod
27	around	around	ADV	_	25 looking	advmod
28	as	as	ADP	_	31 search	case
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 search	mark
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 search	case
31	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 looking	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 something	case
33	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	31 search	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past · passive		og e and nes		noon		tree rules
2	walk	gerund	og e and nes not said here		the streets		with a lighted lantern	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory
3	light	participle						vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	look	gerund					as search of something; around property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	search			something				nom search «act transitive»: of=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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