Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 93
He bade him pour upon the wounds the lungs of a Goat.
Who acts: master · What happens: bade, pour · To what, where: feeding
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 (master), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bade | nsubj |
| 2 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bade | obj |
| 4 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 bade | xcomp |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 wounds | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wounds | det |
| 7 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pour | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lungs | det |
| 9 | lungs | lung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 wounds | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Goat | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Goat | det |
| 12 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lungs | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | master | feeding | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pour | infinitive | master not said here | upon the wounds and the lungs of a Goat | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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