Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 91

The latter replied that he was, and that he was descended from one of the most noble families in that city.

Who acts: latter, Dolphin · What happens: reply, be, descend · To what, where: Dolphin

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 (latter, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 latter	det
2	latter	latter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 was	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 was	nsubj
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 replied	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 descended	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 descended	cc
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 descended	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 descended	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 descended	aux:pass
12	descended	descend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 replied	conj
13	from	from	ADP	_	14 one	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 descended	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 families	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 families	det
17	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	18 noble	advmod
18	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 families	amod
19	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 one	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 city	case
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 city	det
22	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 families	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the latter			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	be	past	Dolphin			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	descend	past · passive		Dolphin	from one of the noble families in that city	vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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