The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Load of Salt, sentence 1
A Merchant, driving his Ass homeward from the seashore with a heavy load of salt, came to a river crossed by a shallow ford.
Who acts: Merchant · What happens: drive, come, cross · To what, where: Ass homeward, seashore, river
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Load of Salt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Merchant), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Merchant | det |
| 2 | Merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 driving | punct |
| 4 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Merchant | acl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 homeward | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 homeward | compound |
| 7 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 driving | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 seashore | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 seashore | det |
| 10 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 driving | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 load | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 load | det |
| 13 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 load | amod |
| 14 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 driving | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 salt | case |
| 16 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 load | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Merchant | punct |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 river | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 river | det |
| 21 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 22 | crossed | cross | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 river | acl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 ford | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 ford | det |
| 25 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ford | amod |
| 26 | ford | ford | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crossed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | gerund | a Merchant not said here | Merchant's Ass homeward | the seashore | with a heavy load of salt | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent homeward=Theme from seashore=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | come | past | a Merchant | a river | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | cross | participle | a river not said here | by a shallow ford | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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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