Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 45
A WASP seated himself upon the head of a Snake and, striking him unceasingly with his stings, wounded him to death.
Who acts: WASP, Snake · What happens: seat, strike, wound, sting · To what, where: Snake
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 (WASP, Snake), 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 WASP | det |
| 2 | WASP | wasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seated | nsubj |
| 3 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 seated | obj |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 head | det |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seated | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Snake | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Snake | det |
| 10 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 head | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 striking | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 striking | punct |
| 13 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 seated | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 striking | obj |
| 15 | unceasingly | unceasingly | ADV | _ | 13 striking | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 stings | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 stings | nmod:poss |
| 18 | stings | sting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 striking | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wounded | punct |
| 20 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seated | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wounded | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 death | case |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wounded | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past | a WASP | Snake | upon the head of a Snake | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value | |||
| 2 | strike | gerund | a WASP not said here | Snake | with Snake's stings; unceasingly property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with sting=Instrument | |||
| 3 | wound | past | a WASP not said here | Snake | to death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | sting | Snake | nom sting «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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