Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 7
The Ass carefully divided the spoil into three equal shares and modestly requested the two others to make the first choice.
Who acts: Ass · What happens: divide, request, make · To what, where: spoil, three equal shares, two others, first choice
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 (Ass), 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 Ass | det |
| 2 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 divided | nsubj |
| 3 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 4 divided | advmod |
| 4 | divided | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spoil | det |
| 6 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 divided | obj |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 shares | case |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 shares | nummod |
| 9 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shares | amod |
| 10 | shares | share | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 divided | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 requested | cc |
| 12 | modestly | modestly | ADV | _ | 13 requested | advmod |
| 13 | requested | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 divided | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 others | det |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 others | nummod |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 requested | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 make | mark |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 requested | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 choice | det |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 choice | amod |
| 21 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 divided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | past | the Ass | the spoil | three equal shares | carefully property | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoil=Theme | ||
| 2 | request | past | the Ass not said here | the two others | modestly property | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent other=Recipient | |||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | the Ass not said here | the first choice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset choice=Product |
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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