Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 30
THE MONKEY, it is said, has two young ones at each birth.
Who acts: MONKEY · What happens: say, have · To what, where: axe, two young ones, birth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MONKEY), 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 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 MONKEY | det |
| 2 | MONKEY | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 MONKEY | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | aux:pass |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 MONKEY | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 MONKEY | punct |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 ones | nummod |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ones | amod |
| 11 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 has | obj |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 birth | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 birth | det |
| 14 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ones | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | axe | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | present | the MONKEY | two young ones | each birth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
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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