Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 127
Being thus deprived of the means of his livelihood, he sat down on the bank and lamented his hard fate.
Who acts: the, Jackdaw · What happens: deprive, mean, sit down, lament, fate · To what, where: bank, hard fate
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 (the, Jackdaw), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 deprived | aux:pass |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 deprived | advmod |
| 3 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 means | csubj |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 means | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 means | nsubj |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 livelihood | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 livelihood | nmod:poss |
| 9 | livelihood | livelihood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sat | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sat | nsubj |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 means | parataxis |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 sat | compound:prt |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 bank | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bank | det |
| 16 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lamented | cc |
| 18 | lamented | lament | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sat | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 fate | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fate | amod |
| 21 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lamented | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deprive | gerund · passive | thus property | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | the | of Jackdaw's livelihood | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sit down | past | Jackdaw | the bank | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location | ||||
| 4 | lament | past | Jackdaw not said here | Jackdaw's hard fate | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | fate | Jackdaw | nom fate «event 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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