Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 13

AT ONE TIME a very large and strong Wolf was born among the wolves, who exceeded all his fellow-wolves in strength, size, and swiftness, so that they unanimously decided to call him “Lion.”

Who acts: wolves, Wolf · What happens: bear, exceed, decide, call · To what, where: large Wolf, fellow wolves, Fox · 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 (wolves, Wolf), 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	AT	at	ADP	_	3 TIME	case
2	ONE	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 TIME	nummod
3	TIME	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 born	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Wolf	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 large	advmod
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Wolf	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 strong	cc
8	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 large	conj
9	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 born	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 born	aux:pass
11	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	among	among	ADP	_	14 wolves	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wolves	det
14	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 born	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 exceeded	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 exceeded	nsubj
17	exceeded	exceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wolves	acl:relcl
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 wolves	det:predet
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wolves	nmod:poss
20	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 wolves	amod
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 fellow	punct
22	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 exceeded	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 strength	case
24	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 wolves	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 size	punct
26	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 strength	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 swiftness	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 swiftness	cc
29	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 born	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 decided	punct
31	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	35 decided	mark
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 so	fixed
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 decided	nsubj
34	unanimously	unanimously	ADV	_	35 decided	advmod
35	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 born	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 call	mark
37	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 decided	xcomp
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 call	obj
39	“	"	PUNCT	_	40 Lion	punct
40	Lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 call	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 born	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 born	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		a large Wolf		time	among the wolves	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	exceed	past	the wolves	Fox's fellow wolves			in strength and size	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot wolf=Theme in strength=Attribute
3	decide	past	Wolf				unanimously property	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	call not said to happen	to-infinitive	Wolf not said here		Fox		Lion obl	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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