The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 28

Here was the culprit who had brought misfortune on all of them!

Who acts: culprit · What happens: be, bring · To what, where: culprit, all

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Animals and the Plague. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (culprit), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 culprit	det
4	culprit	culprit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Here	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 brought	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brought	aux
7	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 culprit	acl:relcl
8	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brought	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 brought	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 all	nmod
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the culprit					here property	tree rules
2	bring	past · perfect · passive		the culprit		all			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination misfortune=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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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