Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 63
The Governor then called a public assembly and addressed the citizens: “Of what folly have you been guilty?
Who acts: Governor · What happens: call, address, be · To what, where: public assembly, citizens · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Governor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Governor | det |
| 2 | Governor | Governor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 called | advmod |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 assembly | det |
| 6 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 assembly | amod |
| 7 | assembly | assembly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 addressed | cc |
| 9 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 citizens | det |
| 11 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 addressed | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 guilty | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 guilty | punct |
| 14 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 16 folly | case |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 folly | nsubj |
| 16 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obl |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 guilty | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 guilty | cop |
| 20 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 called | parataxis |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: ask | past | the Governor | a public assembly | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | address | past | the Governor not said here | the citizens | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent citizen=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present · perfect | guilty property | tree rules |
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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