Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 112
“All these monuments which you see,” said the Monkey, “are erected in honour of my ancestors, who were in their day freedmen and citizens of great renown.”
Who acts: you, Monkey, ancestors · What happens: see, say, erect, be, honour · To what, where: monuments, honour, day freedmen, ancestors · 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 (you, Monkey, ancestors), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 monuments | det:predet |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 monuments | det |
| 4 | monuments | monument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | nsubj |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 see | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 monuments | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 see | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Monkey | det |
| 12 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 erected | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 erected | punct |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 erected | aux:pass |
| 16 | erected | erect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 honour | case |
| 18 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 erected | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 ancestors | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ancestors | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 honour | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 freedmen | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 freedmen | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 freedmen | cop |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 freedmen | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 freedmen | nmod:poss |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 freedmen | compound |
| 28 | freedmen | freedman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ancestors | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 citizens | cc |
| 30 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ancestors | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 renown | case |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 renown | amod |
| 33 | renown | renown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 citizens | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 erected | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | you | all monuments | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Monkey | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | erect in a quote | present · passive | honour of my ancestors and Monkey's day freedmen and citizens of great renown | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | my ancestors and Monkey's day freedmen and citizens of great renown | Monkey's day freedmen | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | honour in a quote | my ancestors and Monkey's day freedmen and citizens of great renown | nom honour «state 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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