The Aesop for Children, The Leap At Rhodes, sentence 5
"No need of witnesses," said one of the hearers. "
Who acts: need · What happens: say, need · To what, where: one, witnesses · 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 (need), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 need | det |
| 3 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 witnesses | case |
| 5 | witnesses | witness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 need | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 need | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 need | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 said | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hearers | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hearers | det |
| 12 | hearers | hearer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | no need of witnesses | one of the hearers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 2 | need in a quote | witnesses | nom need «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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