Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 25
One inhabited a deep pond, far removed from public view; the other lived in a gully containing little water, and traversed by a country road.
Who acts: One, other, gully · What happens: inhabit, remove, live, contain, traverse · To what, where: deep pond, public view, gully, little water
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 (One, other, gully), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 inhabited | nsubj |
| 2 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pond | det |
| 4 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pond | amod |
| 5 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 inhabited | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 removed | punct |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 removed | advmod |
| 8 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 pond | acl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 view | case |
| 10 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 view | amod |
| 11 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 removed | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 lived | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 other | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 inhabited | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 gully | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 gully | det |
| 18 | gully | gully | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lived | obl |
| 19 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 gully | acl |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 water | amod |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 containing | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 traversed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 traversed | cc |
| 24 | traversed | traverse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 lived | conj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 road | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 road | det |
| 27 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 road | compound |
| 28 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 traversed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 inhabited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inhabit | past | One | a deep pond | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remove | participle | a deep pond not said here | public view | far property | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from view=Source | |||
| 3 | live | past | the other | a gully | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gully=Location | ||||
| 4 | contain | gerund | a gully not said here | little water | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot water=Theme | ||||
| 5 | traverse | participle | the other not said here | by a country road | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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