Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 119
SOME DOGS famished with hunger saw a number of cowhides steeping in a river.
Who acts: SOME DOGS, cowhides · What happens: famish, see, steep · To what, where: SOME DOGS, number
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SOME DOGS, cowhides), 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 | SOME | some | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 DOGS | amod |
| 2 | DOGS | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | famished | famish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 DOGS | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 hunger | case |
| 5 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 famished | obl |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 number | det |
| 8 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cowhides | case |
| 10 | cowhides | cowhide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 number | nmod |
| 11 | steeping | steep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 cowhides | acl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 river | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 river | det |
| 14 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 steeping | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | famish | participle | SOME DOGS not said here | with hunger | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | SOME DOGS | a number of cowhides | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | steep | gerund | cowhides not said here | in a river | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in river=Instrument |
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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