--- title: Young men from all parts of the land went to him to learn wisdom fro… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg18442:40:2 # text = 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. 1 Young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 5 parts part NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 14 wisdom wisdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 23 pleasant pleasant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 delightful delightful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 ccomp _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 36 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 37 det _ _ 37 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 39 advmod _ _ 39 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 40 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ _ 41 of of SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 42 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 advcl _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/40/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/40/3/) - ↑ back to [Socrates and His House.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/40/)