Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 13
“These,” he made answer, “are worthy companions of yourself, fit at least to be ambassadors and leaders of armies.”
Who acts: sort · What happens: make, be, fit · To what, where: These, worthy companions, least, ambassadors
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 (sort), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 2 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 made | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 These | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 These | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 made | nsubj |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 companions | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 companions | punct |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 companions | cop |
| 11 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 companions | amod |
| 12 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 yourself | case |
| 14 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 companions | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fit | punct |
| 16 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | advcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 least | case |
| 18 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 fit | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 ambassadors | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 ambassadors | cop |
| 21 | ambassadors | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fit | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 leaders | cc |
| 23 | leaders | leader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ambassadors | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 armies | case |
| 25 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 leaders | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | sort | These | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | worthy companions | of yourself | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fit in a quote | present | sort not said here | least | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent at least=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | ambassadors and leaders of armies | tree rules |
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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