Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 78
He purchased it and brought it home to be reared with his Gamecocks.
Who acts: pilot · What happens: purchase, bring, rear · To what, where: sale
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 (pilot), 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 purchased | nsubj |
| 2 | purchased | purchase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 purchased | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 brought | cc |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 purchased | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | obj |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 brought | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 reared | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 reared | aux:pass |
| 10 | reared | rear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 brought | advcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Gamecocks | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Gamecocks | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Gamecocks | gamecock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 reared | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 purchased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purchase | past | pilot | sale | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | pilot not said here | sale | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | rear | to-infinitive · passive | pilot not said here | with pilot's Gamecocks | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP» |
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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