The Aesop for Children, The Astrologer, sentence 7
His cries for help soon brought the villagers running.
Who acts: cries, villagers, man · What happens: bring, run, cry · To what, where: villagers
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 (cries, villagers, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cries | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 help | case |
| 4 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cries | nmod |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 brought | advmod |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 villagers | det |
| 8 | villagers | villager | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brought | obj |
| 9 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 villagers | acl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | man's cries for help | the villagers | soon property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent villager=Theme | |||
| 2 | run | gerund | the villagers not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cry | man | for help | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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