Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 44
Thus, the fable of the “Hawk and the Nightingale” is related by Hesiod;[4] the “Eagle wounded by an Arrow, winged with its own feathers,” by Æschylus;[5] the “Fox avenging his wrongs on the Eagle,” by Archilochus.
Who acts: Hesiod, 5 · What happens: relate, wound, wing, avenge · To what, where: fable, Eagle, Arrow, wrongs
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hesiod, 5), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 14 related | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fable | det |
| 4 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 related | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Hawk | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Hawk | det |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Hawk | punct |
| 8 | Hawk | Hawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fable | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Nightingale | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Nightingale | det |
| 11 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Hawk | conj |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Nightingale | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 related | aux:pass |
| 14 | related | relate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Hesiod | case |
| 16 | Hesiod | Hesiod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 related | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 4 | punct |
| 18 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 19 4 | punct |
| 19 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 related | appos |
| 20 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 19 4 | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 ” | det |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 ” | punct |
| 23 | Eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 ” | nsubj |
| 24 | wounded | wound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 Eagle | acl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 Arrow | case |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 Arrow | det |
| 27 | Arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wounded | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 winged | punct |
| 29 | winged | wing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 Arrow | acl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 feathers | case |
| 31 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 32 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 feathers | amod |
| 33 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 winged | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 ” | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 4 | punct |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 Æschylus | case |
| 37 | Æschylus | Æschylus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 related | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 avenging | punct |
| 39 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 40 5 | punct |
| 40 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 45 avenging | nsubj |
| 41 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 40 5 | punct |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Fox | det |
| 43 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 Fox | punct |
| 44 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 avenging | nsubj |
| 45 | avenging | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 related | advcl |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 wrongs | nmod:poss |
| 47 | wrongs | wrong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 avenging | obj |
| 48 | on | on | ADP | _ | 50 Eagle | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 Eagle | det |
| 50 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 avenging | obl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 Eagle | punct |
| 52 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 50 Eagle | punct |
| 53 | by | by | ADP | _ | 54 Archilochus | case |
| 54 | Archilochus | Archilochus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 avenging | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | present · passive | Hesiod | the fable of the Hawk and the Nightingale | by Æschylus; thus property | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | wound in a quote | participle | Eagle not said here | by a Arrow | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | wing in a quote | participle | a Arrow not said here | with Arrow's own feathers | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | avenge in a quote | gerund | 5 | Fox's wrongs | on the Eagle; by Archilochus | 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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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