Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 58

A COBBLER unable to make a living by his trade and made desperate by poverty, began to practice medicine in a town in which he was not known.

Who acts: COBBLER · What happens: make, begin, practice, not know, trade · To what, where: living, medicine, town, COBBLER

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: who acts (COBBLER), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 COBBLER	det
2	COBBLER	cobbler	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 began	nsubj
3	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 COBBLER	amod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 unable	xcomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 living	det
7	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 trade	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 trade	nmod:poss
10	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 made	cc
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 trade	conj
13	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 made	xcomp
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 poverty	case
15	poverty	poverty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 COBBLER	punct
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	PART	_	19 practice	mark
19	practice	practice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 practice	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 town	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 town	det
23	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 practice	obl
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 known	obl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 known	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 known	aux:pass
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 known	advmod
29	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 town	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive	a COBBLER not said here	a living		by COBBLER's trade	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset living=Product
2	make	participle	a COBBLER not said here			by poverty; desperate property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	begin	past	a COBBLER				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	practice	to-infinitive	a COBBLER not said here	medicine	a town		vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=Theme
5	not know	past · passive		COBBLER	a town		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus
6	trade		COBBLER				nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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