Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 101
From that hour he found that instead of obtaining revenge on the Stag, he had enslaved himself to the service of man.
Who acts: man · What happens: find, obtain, enslave, service · To what, where: revenge, Stag, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 hour | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 hour | det |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 enslaved | mark |
| 7 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 9 obtaining | mark |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 instead | fixed |
| 9 | obtaining | obtain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 enslaved | advcl |
| 10 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 obtaining | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 Stag | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Stag | det |
| 13 | Stag | Stag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 revenge | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 obtaining | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 enslaved | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 enslaved | aux |
| 17 | enslaved | enslave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 found | ccomp |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 enslaved | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 service | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 service | det |
| 21 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 enslaved | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 man | case |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 service | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | man | hour | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | obtain | gerund | man not said here | revenge | the Stag | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset revenge=Theme | |||
| 3 | enslave | past · perfect | man | man | to the service of man | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 4 | service | man | nom service «act transitive»: of=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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