Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 62
They agreed to appoint Momus as judge, and to abide by his decision.
Who acts: MAN, Momus · What happens: agree, appoint, abide, decide · To what, where: Momus
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, Momus), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 appoint | mark |
| 4 | appoint | appoint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 agreed | xcomp |
| 5 | Momus | momus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appoint | obj |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 judge | case |
| 7 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appoint | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 abide | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 abide | cc |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 abide | mark |
| 11 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 appoint | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 decision | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 decision | nmod:poss |
| 14 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 abide | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | MAN | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | appoint not said to happen | to-infinitive | MAN not said here | Momus | as judge | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent momus=Theme as judge=Attribute | |||
| 3 | abide | to-infinitive | MAN not said here | by Momus's decision | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | decide | Momus | nom decision «act 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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