The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Dolphin, sentence 2
Had it not been for the Dolphins, who at that time were very friendly toward mankind and especially toward Athenians, all would have perished.
Who acts: Dolphins · What happens: have, not be, be, perish · To what, where: bound, Athenians
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Monkey and the Dolphin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dolphins), 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 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Had | obj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 Dolphins | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 Dolphins | cop |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 Dolphins | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Dolphins | det |
| 7 | Dolphins | Dolphin | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Had | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 friendly | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 friendly | nsubj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 who | nmod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 friendly | cop |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 friendly | advmod |
| 15 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Dolphins | amod |
| 16 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 17 mankind | case |
| 17 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 friendly | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 perished | cc |
| 19 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 26 perished | advmod |
| 20 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 21 Athenians | case |
| 21 | Athenians | Athenian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 perished | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 perished | punct |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 perished | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 perished | aux |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 perished | aux |
| 26 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 friendly | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | bound | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not is | participle | for the Dolphins | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the Dolphins | toward mankind; friendly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | perish | would · perfect · passive | Athenians | especially 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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