Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 89
A Dolphin saw the Monkey contending with the waves, and supposing him to be a man (whom he is always said to befriend), came and placed himself under him, to convey him on his back in safety to the shore.
Who acts: Dolphin, Monkey · What happens: see, contend, suppose, be, say, befriend · To what, where: Monkey, Dolphin, man, shore, back · 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 (Dolphin, Monkey), 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 Dolphin | det |
| 2 | Dolphin | Dolphin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Monkey | det |
| 5 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | contending | contend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 Monkey | acl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 waves | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 waves | det |
| 9 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 contending | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 supposing | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 supposing | cc |
| 12 | supposing | suppose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 supposing | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 man | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 man | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 supposing | advcl |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 19 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 said | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | aux:pass |
| 22 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 23 said | advmod |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 man | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 befriend | mark |
| 25 | befriend | befriend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 said | xcomp |
| 26 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 came | punct |
| 28 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 placed | cc |
| 30 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 came | conj |
| 31 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 placed | obj |
| 32 | under | under | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 placed | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 convey | punct |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 convey | mark |
| 36 | convey | convey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 placed | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 convey | obj |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 back | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 back | nmod:poss |
| 40 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 convey | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 safety | case |
| 42 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 convey | obl |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 shore | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 shore | det |
| 45 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 convey | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | a Dolphin | the Monkey | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monkey=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | contend | gerund | the Monkey not said here | with the waves | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with wave=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | suppose | gerund | a Dolphin not said here | Dolphin | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | a Dolphin not said here | a man | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present · passive | Dolphin | always property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | befriend | to-infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | come | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | place | past | Dolphin | under Dolphin | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme under he=Destination | ||||
| 9 | convey | to-infinitive | Dolphin | the shore | Dolphin's back | in safety | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to shore=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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