Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 125
Therefore being condemned by each for his treachery, he was driven forth from the light of day, and henceforth concealed himself in dark hiding-places, flying always alone and at night.
What happens: condemn, drive, conceal, fly, light · To what, where: lion, light, dark hiding places, day
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 | Therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 condemned | advmod |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 condemned | aux:pass |
| 3 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 each | case |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 condemned | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 treachery | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 treachery | nmod:poss |
| 8 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 each | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 driven | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 driven | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 driven | aux:pass |
| 12 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 condemned | conj |
| 13 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 12 driven | advmod |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 light | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 light | det |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 driven | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 light | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 concealed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 concealed | cc |
| 21 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 22 concealed | advmod |
| 22 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 condemned | conj |
| 23 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 concealed | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 places | case |
| 25 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 places | amod |
| 26 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 places | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 hiding | punct |
| 28 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 concealed | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 flying | punct |
| 30 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 concealed | advcl |
| 31 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 32 alone | advmod |
| 32 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 30 flying | advmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 night | cc |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 night | case |
| 35 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 alone | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 condemned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | condemn | gerund · passive | by each; therefore property | vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING» | |||||
| 2 | drive | past · passive | lion | the light of day | forth property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme from light=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | conceal | past | lion | dark hiding places | henceforth property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in place=Location | |||
| 4 | fly | gerund | alone property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | light | day | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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