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title: He found Diogenes in an out-of-the-way place, lying on the ground by… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: He found Diogenes in an out-of-the-way place, lying on the ground by his tub. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Diogenes the Wise Man., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Diogenes the Wise Man., sentence 13

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He found Diogenes in an out-of-the-way place, lying on the ground by his tub.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** find, lie · **To what, where:** Diogenes, way place, ground

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg18442:38:13
# text = He found Diogenes in an out-of-the-way place, lying on the ground by his tub.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Diogenes	Diogenes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | man | Diogenes |  | a way place |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent diogenes=Topic |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund | man *not said here* |  |  | the ground |  | by man's tub | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |

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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.

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**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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