Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 2
A YOUNG MAN, a great spendthrift, had run through all his patrimony and had but one good cloak left.
Who acts: YOUNG MAN, one good cloak · What happens: run, have, leave · To what, where: patrimony
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 (YOUNG MAN, one good cloak), 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 | 3 MAN | det |
| 2 | YOUNG | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 MAN | amod |
| 3 | MAN | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 run | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spendthrift | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 spendthrift | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spendthrift | amod |
| 7 | spendthrift | spendthrift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 MAN | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 MAN | punct |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 run | aux |
| 10 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 patrimony | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 patrimony | det:predet |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 patrimony | nmod:poss |
| 14 | patrimony | patrimony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 run | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 run | conj |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 left | cc |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 cloak | nummod |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cloak | amod |
| 20 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 left | nsubj |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 had | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · perfect | a YOUNG MAN and a great spendthrift | his patrimony | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through patrimony=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | have | past | a YOUNG MAN and a great spendthrift not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | leave | participle | one good cloak | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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