Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 90
When the Dolphin arrived with his burden in sight of land not far from Athens, he asked the Monkey if he were an Athenian.
Who acts: Dolphin · What happens: arrive, ask, be, burden, sight · To what, where: Athens, Monkey, Athenian, sight, land
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), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 arrived | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dolphin | det |
| 3 | Dolphin | Dolphin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 asked | advcl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 burden | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 burden | nmod:poss |
| 7 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burden | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 land | case |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sight | nmod |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 far | advmod |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 arrived | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Athens | case |
| 15 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 asked | nsubj |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Monkey | det |
| 20 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | obj |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 Athenian | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 Athenian | nsubj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 Athenian | cop |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Athenian | det |
| 25 | Athenian | Athenian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the Dolphin | Athens | with Dolphin's burden in sight of land; far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from athens=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Dolphin | the Monkey | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent monkey=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | Dolphin | a Athenian | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | burden | Dolphin | sight of land | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place | |||||
| 5 | sight | land | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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