The Aesop for Children, The Astrologer, sentence 2

He called himself an Astrologer, and spent his time at night gazing at the sky.

Who acts: man · What happens: call, spend, gaze · To what, where: man · 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 called	obj
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Astrologer	det
5	Astrologer	Astrologer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 called	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 spent	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 spent	cc
8	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 time	nmod:poss
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spent	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 night	case
12	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 spent	obl
13	gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 spent	advcl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 sky	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sky	det
16	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gazing	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	man	man			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient
2	spend	past	man not said here		night; time		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	gaze	gerund	man not said here			at the sky	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sky=Theme

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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