Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 52
A MAN and a Satyr once drank together in token of a bond of alliance being formed between them.
Who acts: MAN · What happens: drink, form, bond · To what, where: token, alliance
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 (MAN), 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 | 2 MAN | det |
| 2 | MAN | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drank | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Satyr | cc |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Satyr | det |
| 5 | Satyr | Satyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 MAN | conj |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 drank | advmod |
| 7 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 7 drank | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 token | case |
| 10 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drank | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 bond | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bond | det |
| 13 | bond | bond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 token | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 alliance | case |
| 15 | alliance | alliance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bond | nmod |
| 16 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 formed | aux:pass |
| 17 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 alliance | acl |
| 18 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 formed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | a MAN and a Satyr | token of a bond of alliance | once, together property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | form | gerund · passive | alliance not said here | between MAN | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: between they=Location | ||||
| 3 | bond | alliance | nom bond «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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