The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 6
"Dear friends, I believe the gods have sent this plague upon us as a punishment for our sins.
Who acts: lamb · What happens: believe, send · To what, where: gods, Dear friends
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 (lamb), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 friends | punct |
| 2 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 friends | amod |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 friends | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 believe | nsubj |
| 6 | believe | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 friends | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gods | det |
| 8 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 believe | obj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sent | aux |
| 10 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 plague | det |
| 12 | plague | plague | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obj |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 us | case |
| 14 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 sent | obl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 punishment | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 punishment | det |
| 17 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sent | obl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 sins | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sins | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 punishment | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe in a quote | present | lamb | the gods | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer god=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | send in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Dear friends | upon us; as a punishment for our sins | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination plague=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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