Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 87
A SAILOR, bound on a long voyage, took with him a Monkey to amuse him while on shipboard.
Who acts: SAILOR · What happens: bind, take, amuse · To what, where: SAILOR, long voyage, Monkey, favour
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 (SAILOR), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 SAILOR | det |
| 2 | SAILOR | sailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bound | punct |
| 4 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 SAILOR | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 voyage | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 voyage | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 voyage | amod |
| 8 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bound | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 SAILOR | punct |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Monkey | det |
| 14 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 amuse | mark |
| 16 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 took | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 amuse | obj |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 shipboard | mark |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 shipboard | case |
| 20 | shipboard | shipboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 amuse | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | participle | a SAILOR not said here | a long voyage | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | past | a SAILOR | a Monkey | with favour | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument monkey=Destination | |||
| 3 | amuse | to-infinitive | a SAILOR not said here | favour | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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