Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 7

TWO MEN, one who always spoke the truth and the other who told nothing but lies, were traveling together and by chance came to the land of Apes.

Who acts: TWO MEN, other · What happens: speak, tell, lie, travel, come · To what, where: truth, nothing, land · 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 (TWO MEN, 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	TWO	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 MEN	nummod
2	MEN	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 spoke	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 spoke	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 spoke	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 spoke	advmod
7	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 truth	det
9	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spoke	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 other	det
12	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 told	nsubj
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 told	nsubj
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 spoke	conj
15	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 told	obj
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 lies	cc
17	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 nothing	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 traveling	punct
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 traveling	aux
20	traveling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 told	ccomp
21	together	together	ADV	_	20 traveling	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 came	cc
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 chance	case
24	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obl
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 traveling	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 land	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 land	det
28	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 Apes	case
30	Apes	ape	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 land	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	past	TWO MEN	the truth		always property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	the other	nothing			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent nothing=Recipient clause=Topic
3	lie	present	the other not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	travel	past · progressive				together property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come	past			the land of Apes	by chance	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_Location

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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