Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop, sentence 769
Not long afterwards there was a festival in the village and every one kept holiday: but, whereas the Ox was turned loose into the pasture, the Heifer was seized and led off to sacrifice.
Who acts: festival, one · What happens: be, keep, turn, seize, lead off · To what, where: holiday, Ox, pasture, Heifer
This is a sentence of «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (festival, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | _ | 3 afterwards | advmod |
| 3 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 5 was | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 festival | det |
| 7 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 village | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 festival | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 kept | cc |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kept | nsubj |
| 14 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 was | conj |
| 15 | holiday | holiday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kept | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 seized | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 seized | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 turned | punct |
| 19 | whereas | whereas | SCONJ | _ | 23 turned | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Ox | det |
| 21 | Ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 turned | aux:pass |
| 23 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 seized | advcl |
| 24 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 turned | xcomp |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 pasture | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pasture | det |
| 27 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 turned | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 turned | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Heifer | det |
| 30 | Heifer | heifer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 seized | aux:pass |
| 32 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 was | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 led | cc |
| 34 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 seized | conj |
| 35 | off | off | ADP | _ | 34 led | compound:prt |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 sacrifice | case |
| 37 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 led | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a festival in the village | there | afterwards property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | keep | past | every one | holiday | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent holiday=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | past · passive | the Ox | the pasture | loose property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into pasture=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | seize | past · passive | the Heifer | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | lead off | participle | to sacrifice | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to sacrifice=Patient |
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: «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», Project Gutenberg book 11339 (public domain in the USA). Annotation: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (mova-tales-silver-en.conllu), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. Sentence gutenberg:pg11339:769.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the tale's sample read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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