Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 127

The Horse chose his earliest years and gave them his own attributes: hence every man is in his youth impetuous, headstrong, and obstinate in maintaining his own opinion.

Who acts: Horse, man · What happens: choose, give, attribute, be, maintain, opine · To what, where: Horse, own, youth, own opinion

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, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Horse	det
2	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chose	nsubj
3	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 years	nmod:poss
5	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 years	amod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chose	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chose	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gave	iobj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 own	nmod:poss
11	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 attributes	obl
12	attributes	attribute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 gave	parataxis
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 attributes	punct
14	hence	hence	ADV	_	12 attributes	advmod
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 youth	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 youth	cop
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 youth	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 youth	nmod:poss
20	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 attributes	parataxis
21	impetuous	impetuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 youth	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 headstrong	punct
23	headstrong	headstrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 impetuous	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 obstinate	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 obstinate	cc
26	obstinate	obstinate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 impetuous	conj
27	in	in	SCONJ	_	28 maintaining	mark
28	maintaining	maintain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 obstinate	advcl
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 opinion	nmod:poss
30	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 opinion	amod
31	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 maintaining	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past	the Horse				year		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	the Horse not said here		Horse				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	attribute	present		man's own				hence property	tree rules
4	is	present	every man			man's youth			tree rules
5	maintain	gerund	every man not said here	man's own opinion					vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme
6	opine		man						nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=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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