Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 10

After these preparations he signified that the two men should be brought before him, and greeted them with this salutation: “What sort of a king do I seem to you to be, O strangers?”

Who acts: other · What happens: signify, bring, greet, seem, be, sort · To what, where: two men, MEN, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 preparations	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 preparations	det
3	preparations	preparation	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 signified	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 signified	nsubj
5	signified	signify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 brought	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 men	det
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 men	nummod
9	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 brought	nsubj:pass
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 brought	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 brought	aux:pass
12	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 signified	ccomp
13	before	before	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 brought	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 greeted	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 greeted	cc
17	greeted	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 signified	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 greeted	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 salutation	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 salutation	det
21	salutation	salutation	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 greeted	obl
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 seem	punct
23	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 seem	punct
24	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	25 sort	det
25	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 do	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 king	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 king	det
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sort	nmod
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 seem	aux
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 seem	nsubj
31	seem	seem	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 signified	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 seem	obl
34	to	to	PART	_	35 be	mark
35	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 seem	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 strangers	punct
37	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	38 strangers	case
38	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 seem	obl
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	38 strangers	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 signified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	signify	past	other			after this preparations		tree rules
2	bring	should · passive		the two men		before other		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination
3	greet speech: greet	past	other not said here		MEN = man		with this salutation	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	seem in a quote	present · do-support	other		MEN = man		of strangers	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	be in a quote	to-infinitive	other not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sort in a quote			a king				nom sort «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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