Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 104

The Doves, as long as he was silent, supposed him to be one of themselves and admitted him to their cote.

Who acts: man, Doves · What happens: be, suppose, admit · To what, where: man, one, cote

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, Doves), 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 Doves	det
2	Doves	Dove	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 supposed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 long	punct
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 Doves	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 silent	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 silent	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 silent	cop
9	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 long	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Doves	punct
11	supposed	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 supposed	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	15 one	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 one	cop
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 supposed	xcomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 themselves	case
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 one	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 admitted	cc
19	admitted	admit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 supposed	conj
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 admitted	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 cote	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 cote	nmod:poss
23	cote	cote	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 admitted	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 supposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	man			silent property	tree rules
2	suppose	past	the Doves	man			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute
3	is a	to-infinitive	the Doves not said here	one		of Doves = dove	tree rules
4	admit speech: other	past	the Doves not said here	man	Doves's cote		vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to cote=Recipient

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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