Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 70
A Jackdaw, who witnessed the capture of the lamb, was stirred with envy and determined to emulate the strength and flight of the Eagle.
Who acts: Jackdaw · What happens: witness, stir, emulate, capture · To what, where: capture, Jackdaw, strength, lamb
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 (Jackdaw), 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 Jackdaw | det |
| 2 | Jackdaw | Jackdaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 stirred | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 witnessed | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 witnessed | nsubj |
| 5 | witnessed | witness | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Jackdaw | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 capture | det |
| 7 | capture | capture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 witnessed | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 lamb | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lamb | det |
| 10 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 capture | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Jackdaw | punct |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stirred | aux:pass |
| 13 | stirred | stir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 envy | case |
| 15 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stirred | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 determined | cc |
| 17 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stirred | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 emulate | mark |
| 19 | emulate | emulate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 determined | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 strength | det |
| 21 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 emulate | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 flight | cc |
| 23 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 strength | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Eagle | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Eagle | det |
| 26 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 flight | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 stirred | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | witness | past | a Jackdaw | the capture of the lamb | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capture=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | stir | past · passive | a Jackdaw | with envy | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with envy=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | emulate | to-infinitive | the strength and flight of the Eagle | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | capture | the lamb | nom capture «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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