The Aesop for Children, The Leap At Rhodes, sentence 6
Suppose this city is Rhodes.
Who acts: you, city · What happens: suppose, be · To what, where: Rhodes · 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 (you, city), 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 | Suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 city | det |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Rhodes | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Rhodes | cop |
| 5 | Rhodes | Rhodes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Suppose | ccomp |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | imperative | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | this city | Rhodes | 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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