Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 61
On the completion of their labours, a dispute arose as to which had made the most perfect work.
Who acts: dispute · What happens: arise, make, complete · To what, where: completion, perfect work, labours
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 (dispute), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 completion | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 completion | det |
| 3 | completion | completion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arose | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 labours | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 labours | nmod:poss |
| 6 | labours | labour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 completion | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 completion | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dispute | det |
| 9 | dispute | dispute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arose | nsubj |
| 10 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 made | mark |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 as | fixed |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 made | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 made | aux |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 arose | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 work | det |
| 17 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 18 perfect | advmod |
| 18 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 work | amod |
| 19 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | a dispute | the completion of MAN's labours | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect · passive | the perfect work | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary work=Product | |||||
| 3 | complete | MAN's labours | nom completion «act 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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