Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 8

One of the Apes, who had raised himself to be king, commanded them to be seized and brought before him, that he might know what was said of him among men.

Who acts: One Apes, other · What happens: raise, be, command, seize, bring, know · To what, where: One Apes, king, MEN · 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 (One Apes, 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 Apes	nummod
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 Apes	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Apes	det
4	Apes	Ape	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 commanded	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 raised	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 raised	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 raised	aux
8	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 Apes	acl:relcl
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 raised	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	12 king	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 king	cop
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 raised	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 commanded	punct
14	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 commanded	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	18 seized	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 seized	aux:pass
18	seized	seize	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 commanded	advcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 brought	cc
20	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 seized	conj
21	before	before	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 brought	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 know	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 know	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 know	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 know	aux
27	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 seized	conj
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	30 said	nsubj:pass
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 said	aux:pass
30	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 know	ccomp
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 said	obl
33	among	among	ADP	_	34 men	case
34	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 said	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 commanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past · perfect · passive		the One Apes			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme himself=Destination
2	is a	to-infinitive		king			tree rules
3	command	past	the One Apes	MEN = man			vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality
4	seize	to-infinitive · passive	the One Apes not said here				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»
5	bring	participle	the One Apes not said here		before other		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination
6	know	might	other				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	say speech: assert	past · passive				of other; among men	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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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