Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 23

ALL the Goods were once driven out by the Ills from that common share which they each had in the affairs of mankind; for the Ills by reason of their numbers had prevailed to possess the earth.

Who acts: Ills, Goods · What happens: drive out, have, prevail, possess · To what, where: Goods, common share, affairs, reason, earth

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 (Ills, Goods), 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	ALL	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 Goods	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Goods	det
3	Goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	6 driven	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 driven	aux:pass
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 driven	advmod
6	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	out	out	ADP	_	6 driven	compound:prt
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 Ills	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Ills	det
10	Ills	ill	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 driven	obl
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 share	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 share	det
13	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 share	amod
14	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Ills	nmod
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 had	obj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 had	nsubj
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 had	advmod
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 share	acl:relcl
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 affairs	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 affairs	det
21	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 had	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 mankind	case
23	mankind	mankind	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 affairs	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 Ills	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	27 Ills	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Ills	det
27	Ills	ill	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 driven	conj
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 reason	case
29	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Ills	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 numbers	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 numbers	nmod:poss
32	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 prevailed	obl
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 prevailed	aux
34	prevailed	prevail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 reason	acl:relcl
35	to	to	PART	_	36 possess	mark
36	possess	possess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 prevailed	xcomp
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 earth	det
38	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 possess	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 driven	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive out	past · passive	the Ills from that common share	all Goods		once property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory
2	have	past	Goods	that common share	the affairs of mankind		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
3	prevail	past · perfect		reason not said here		of Ills's numbers	tree rules
4	possess	to-infinitive		the earth			vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot earth=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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