The Aesop for Children, The Leap At Rhodes, sentence 4
A great many persons in Rhodes had seen him do it and would prove that what he told was true.
Who acts: great many persons, man · What happens: see, do, prove, tell, be · To what, where: great many persons, 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 (great many persons, 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 | 4 persons | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 persons | amod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 persons | amod |
| 4 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Rhodes | case |
| 6 | Rhodes | Rhodes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 persons | nmod |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 seen | aux |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 seen | obj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seen | xcomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 do | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 prove | cc |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 prove | aux |
| 14 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seen | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 true | mark |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 true | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 told | nsubj |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 what | acl:relcl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 true | cop |
| 20 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 prove | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect · passive | a great many persons in Rhodes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | a great many persons in Rhodes not said here | leap | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | prove | would | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | true property | tree rules |
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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