The Aesop for Children, The Astrologer, sentence 1
A man who lived a long time ago believed that he could read the future in the stars.
Who acts: man · What happens: live, believe, read · To what, where: future, stars · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Astrologer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 believed | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 man | acl:relcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 4 lived | advmod |
| 9 | believed | believe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 read | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 read | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 read | aux |
| 13 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 believed | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 future | det |
| 15 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 read | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 stars | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stars | det |
| 18 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 read | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a man | time | ago property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | believe | past | a man | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | read | could | man | the future | the stars | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent future=Topic |
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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