Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 107
They too, not recognizing him on account of his color, expelled him from living with them.
Who acts: Doves · What happens: not recognize, expel, live, account · To what, where: man, account, color
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 recognizing | nsubj |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 recognizing | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 recognizing | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 recognizing | advmod |
| 5 | recognizing | recognize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 recognizing | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 account | case |
| 8 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 recognizing | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 color | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 color | nmod:poss |
| 11 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 account | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 expelled | punct |
| 13 | expelled | expel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 recognizing | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 expelled | obj |
| 15 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 16 living | mark |
| 16 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 expelled | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 living | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 recognizing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not recognize | gerund | Doves = dove | man | account of man's color | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | expel | past | Doves = dove not said here | man | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | gerund | Doves = dove not said here | with Doves = dove | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location | ||||
| 4 | account | man's color | nom account «communication 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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