Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 60
ACCORDING to an ancient legend, the first man was made by Jupiter, the first bull by Neptune, and the first house by Minerva.
Who acts: Jupiter · What happens: accord, make · To what, where: first man
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), 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 | ACCORDING | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 legend | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 ACCORDING | fixed |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 legend | det |
| 4 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 legend | amod |
| 5 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 legend | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 made | aux:pass |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Jupiter | case |
| 13 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bull | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bull | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 bull | amod |
| 17 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Jupiter | appos |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 Neptune | case |
| 19 | Neptune | Neptune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 bull | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 house | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 house | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 23 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 house | amod |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 Minerva | case |
| 26 | Minerva | Minerva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 house | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | Jupiter | the first man | accord a ancient legend; the first house by Minerva obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
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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