Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Socrates and His House., sentence 2

Young men from all parts of the land went to him to learn wisdom from him; and he said so many pleasant things, and said them in so delightful a way, that no one ever grew tired of listening to him.

Who acts: Young men, man, one · What happens: go, learn, say, grow, listen · To what, where: Greece, wisdom, many pleasant things, things, man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Young men, man, one), 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	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 men	amod
2	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 went	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 parts	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 parts	det
5	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 men	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 land	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 land	det
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 parts	nmod
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 went	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 learn	mark
13	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 went	advcl
14	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 learn	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 learn	obl
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	9 went	conj
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 many	advmod
22	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 things	amod
23	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 things	amod
24	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 said	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 said	cc
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	parataxis
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 delightful	case
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 delightful	advmod
31	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 said	ccomp
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 way	det
33	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 delightful	obl:unmarked
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 grew	punct
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 grew	mark
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 one	det
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 grew	nsubj
38	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	39 grew	advmod
39	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 said	conj
40	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 grew	xcomp
41	of	of	SCONJ	_	42 listening	mark
42	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 tired	advcl
43	to	to	ADP	_	44 him	case
44	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 listening	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Young men from all parts of the land		Greece			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location
2	learn	to-infinitive	Young men from all parts of the land not said here	wisdom			from man	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wisdom=Topic from he=Source
3	say speech: assert	past	man	many pleasant things				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past		things = thing				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic
5	grow	past	no one			ever	tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	listen	gerund	no one not said here		man			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme

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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