Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 108
So desiring two ends, he obtained neither.
Who acts: man · What happens: desire, obtain · To what, where: two ends
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 desiring | advmod |
| 2 | desiring | desire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 obtained | advcl |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 ends | nummod |
| 4 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 desiring | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 desiring | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 obtained | nsubj |
| 7 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 7 obtained | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 obtained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | gerund | man not said here | two ends | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot end=Theme | ||||
| 2 | obtain | past | man | neither property | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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