Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Socrates and His House., sentence 1

There once lived in Greece a very wise man whose name was Soc'ra-tes.

Who acts: name, Soc'ra tes · What happens: live, be, name · To what, where: wise man, Greece, Soc'ra tes

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Socrates and His House.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, Soc'ra tes), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 lived	expl
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 lived	advmod
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Greece	case
5	Greece	Greece	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 man	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 wise	advmod
8	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 man	amod
9	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 name	nmod:poss
11	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tes	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tes	cop
13	Soc'ra	Soc'ra	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 tes	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Soc'ra	punct
15	tes	te	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 man	acl:relcl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past		a wise man	Greece; there	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in greece=Location
2	is a	past	Soc'ra tes's name	Soc'ra tes			tree rules
3	name		Soc'ra tes				nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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