Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 118
Ought I not to be acknowledged as King of all the collected beasts?”
What happens: not acknowledge, collect · To what, where: I
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 acknowledged | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 acknowledged | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 acknowledged | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 acknowledged | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 acknowledged | aux:pass |
| 6 | acknowledged | acknowledge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 13 beasts | case |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 of | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 as | fixed |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 beasts | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 beasts | det |
| 12 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 beasts | amod |
| 13 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 acknowledged | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 acknowledged | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 acknowledged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not acknowledge | ought · passive | I | as all collected beasts | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | collect | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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