The Aesop for Children, The Leap At Rhodes, sentence 1

A certain man who visited foreign lands could talk of little when he returned to his home except the wonderful adventures he had met with and the great deeds he had done abroad.

Who acts: certain man, man · What happens: visit, talk, return, meet, do · To what, where: foreign lands, wonderful adventures, great deeds

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Leap At Rhodes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain man, man), 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	3 man	det
2	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talk	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 visited	nsubj
5	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 man	acl:relcl
6	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lands	amod
7	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 visited	obj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 talk	aux
9	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 little	case
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 talk	obl
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 returned	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 returned	nsubj
14	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 talk	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 home	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 home	nmod:poss
17	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 returned	obl
18	except	except	ADP	_	21 adventures	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 adventures	det
20	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 adventures	amod
21	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 returned	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 met	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 met	aux
24	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 adventures	acl:relcl
25	with	with	ADP	_	24 met	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 done	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 deeds	det
28	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 deeds	amod
29	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 done	nsubj:pass
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 done	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 done	aux
32	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 met	conj
33	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	32 done	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 talk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	visit	past	a certain man	foreign lands		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Co-Agent
2	talk	could	a certain man		of little	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	return	past	man		to man's home result; except the wonderful adventures	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result
4	meet	past · perfect	man	the wonderful adventures not said here		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Co-Agent
5	do	past · perfect · passive		the great deeds	abroad property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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