The Aesop for Children, The Leap At Rhodes, sentence 3
That leap was so great, he said, that no other man could leap anywhere near the distance.
Who acts: leap, man, other man · What happens: be, say, leap · 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 (leap, man, other 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 leap | det |
| 2 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 great | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 great | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 great | advmod |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 great | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 leap | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 leap | mark |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 man | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leap | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 leap | aux |
| 15 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 16 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 leap | advmod |
| 17 | near | near | ADP | _ | 19 distance | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 distance | det |
| 19 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leap | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | that leap | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | leap | could | no other man | near the distance; anywhere property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near distance=Trajectory |
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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