The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Dolphin, sentence 4

Now it was the custom among the Greeks to take their pet monkeys and dogs with them whenever they went on a voyage.

Who acts: shore, monkeys · What happens: be, take, go · To what, where: custom, pet monkeys, voyage

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 (shore, monkeys), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 custom	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 custom	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 custom	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 custom	det
5	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	among	among	ADP	_	8 Greeks	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Greeks	det
8	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 custom	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 take	mark
10	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 custom	acl
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 monkeys	nmod:poss
12	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 monkeys	compound
13	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 take	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dogs	cc
15	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 monkeys	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 take	obl
18	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 went	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 take	advcl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 voyage	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 voyage	det
23	voyage	voyage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 custom	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	shore	the custom			now	among the Greeks	tree rules
2	take	to-infinitive			Greeks's pet monkeys and dogs			with dogs = dog	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument monkey=Destination
3	go	past	monkeys = monkey			a voyage		whenever property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on voyage=Location

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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