Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 26
Jupiter granted their request and decreed that henceforth the Ills should visit the earth in company with each other, but that the Goods should one by one enter the habitations of men.
Who acts: Jupiter, Ills, one, Goods · What happens: grant, decree, visit, enter, request · To what, where: request, earth, company, habitations
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 (Jupiter, Ills, one, 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 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 granted | nsubj |
| 2 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 request | nmod:poss |
| 4 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 granted | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 decreed | cc |
| 6 | decreed | decree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 granted | conj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 visit | mark |
| 8 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 10 Ills | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ills | det |
| 10 | Ills | ill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 visit | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 visit | aux |
| 12 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 decreed | ccomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 earth | det |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 visit | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 company | case |
| 16 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 visit | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 each | case |
| 18 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 12 visit | obl |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 each | fixed |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 enter | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 enter | cc |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 one | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Goods | det |
| 24 | Goods | Good | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 one | nsubj |
| 25 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 one | aux |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 enter | nsubj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 one | case |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 one | nmod |
| 29 | enter | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 granted | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 habitations | det |
| 31 | habitations | habitation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 enter | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 men | case |
| 33 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 habitations | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past | Jupiter | Goods's request | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme | ||||
| 2 | decree | past | Jupiter not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | visit | should | the Ills | the earth | company | with each | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earth=Co-Agent | ||
| 4 | enter | present | one by one | the habitations of men | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme habitation=Destination | ||||
| 5 | request | Goods | nom request «communication 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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