Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 126

For this purpose, they divided the term of his life between them, and each endowed one portion of it with the qualities which chiefly characterized himself.

Who acts: Horse, qualities · What happens: divide, endow, characterize, term · To what, where: term, one portion, man, life

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 (Horse, qualities), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 purpose	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 purpose	det
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 divided	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 purpose	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 divided	nsubj
6	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 term	det
8	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 divided	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 life	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod:poss
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 term	nmod
12	between	between	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 life	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 endowed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 endowed	cc
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 endowed	advmod
17	endowed	endow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 divided	conj
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 portion	nummod
19	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 endowed	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 portion	nmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 qualities	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 qualities	det
24	qualities	quality	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 endowed	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 characterized	nsubj
26	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	_	27 characterized	advmod
27	characterized	characterize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 qualities	acl:relcl
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 characterized	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 divided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	divide	past	Horse	the term of man's life between animals	for this purpose	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Theme
2	endow	past	Horse not said here	one portion of portion	with the qualities	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent portion=Destination with quality=Theme
3	characterize	past	the qualities	man	chiefly property	vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
4	term			man's life between animals		nom term «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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