The Aesop for Children, The Leap At Rhodes, sentence 2

One of the feats he told about was a leap he had made in a city Called Rhodes.

Who acts: man, One · What happens: tell, be, make, call · To what, where: feats, leap, city · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (man, One), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 leap	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 feats	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 feats	det
4	feats	feat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feats	acl:relcl
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 told	advmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 leap	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 leap	det
10	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	aux
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 leap	acl:relcl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 city	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 city	det
16	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obl
17	Called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 city	acl
18	Rhodes	Rhodes	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Called	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 leap	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	man	the feats not said here		about property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent feat=Recipient
2	is a	past	One of the feats	a leap			tree rules
3	make	past · perfect	man	a leap not said here	a city		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Product
4	call	participle		a city not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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