Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 18
“Thou art,” he said, “a most excellent Ape, and all these thy companions after thy example are excellent Apes too.”
Who acts: gift, companions, thy · What happens: say, be, exemplify · To what, where: excellent Apes · 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 (gift, companions, thy), 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 | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 art | nsubj |
| 3 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ape | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ape | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Ape | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 excellent | advmod |
| 12 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Ape | amod |
| 13 | Ape | ape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Apes | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Apes | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 companions | det:predet |
| 17 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 companions | det |
| 18 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 companions | nmod:poss |
| 19 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 Apes | nsubj |
| 20 | after | after | ADP | _ | 22 example | case |
| 21 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 example | nmod:poss |
| 22 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 companions | nmod |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 Apes | cop |
| 24 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Apes | amod |
| 25 | Apes | ape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Ape | parataxis |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 25 Apes | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ape | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Ape | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | gift | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | thy companions after thy example | excellent Apes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | exemplify in a quote | thy | nom example «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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