Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 65
He then condemned the work of Jupiter, because he had not placed the heart of man on the outside, that everyone might read the thoughts of the evil disposed and take precautions against the intended mischief.
Who acts: Momus, everyone, Jupiter · What happens: condemn, not place, read, dispose, take, intend · To what, where: work, heart, thoughts, precautions, intended mischief, evil
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 (Momus, everyone, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 condemned | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 condemned | advmod |
| 3 | condemned | condemn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 work | det |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 condemned | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Jupiter | case |
| 7 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 work | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 placed | punct |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 placed | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 placed | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 placed | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 placed | advmod |
| 13 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 condemned | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heart | det |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 placed | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 man | case |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 heart | nmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 outside | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 outside | det |
| 20 | outside | outside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 man | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 read | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 read | mark |
| 23 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 25 read | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 read | aux |
| 25 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 placed | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 thoughts | det |
| 27 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 read | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 evil | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 evil | det |
| 30 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 thoughts | nmod |
| 31 | disposed | dispose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 thoughts | acl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 take | cc |
| 33 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 read | conj |
| 34 | precautions | precaution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 take | obj |
| 35 | against | against | ADP | _ | 38 mischief | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 mischief | det |
| 37 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 mischief | amod |
| 38 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 take | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 condemned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | condemn | past | Momus | the work of Jupiter | then | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | |||
| 2 | not place | past · perfect | Momus | the heart of man on the outside | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | ||||
| 3 | read | might | everyone | the thoughts of the evil | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Topic | ||||
| 4 | dispose | participle | the thoughts of the evil not said here | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | take | infinitive | everyone not said here | precautions | the intended mischief | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent precaution=Theme against mischief=Destination | |||
| 6 | intend | participle | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | work | Jupiter | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 8 | think | the evil | nom thought «cognition 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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