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title: At noon one day, Di-og-e-nes was seen walking through the streets wi… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Diogenes the Wise Man., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Fifty Famous Stories Retold, Diogenes the Wise Man., sentence 7

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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.

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

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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 (og e), 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:pg18442:38:7
# text = 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.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Di	Di	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	og	og	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	e	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	nes	ne	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
26	all	all	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	around	around	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 |

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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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