Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 85
EVERY MAN, according to an ancient legend, is born into the world with two bags suspended from his neck all bag in front full of his neighbors’ faults, and a large bag behind filled with his own faults.
Who acts: two bags, neighbors, eagle · What happens: accord, bear, suspend, fill, fault · To what, where: MAN, world, bag, neck, large bag
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 (two bags, neighbors, eagle), 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 | EVERY | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 MAN | det |
| 2 | MAN | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 born | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 legend | punct |
| 4 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 legend | case |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 according | fixed |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 legend | det |
| 7 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 legend | amod |
| 8 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 MAN | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 MAN | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 born | aux:pass |
| 11 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 born | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 bags | case |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 bags | nummod |
| 17 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 born | obl |
| 18 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 bags | acl |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 neck | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 neck | nmod:poss |
| 21 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 suspended | obl |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 bag | det |
| 23 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 suspended | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 front | case |
| 25 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 suspended | obl |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 front | amod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 faults | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 29 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 faults | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 29 neighbors | case |
| 31 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 full | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 bag | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 bag | cc |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 bag | det |
| 35 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 bag | amod |
| 36 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 born | parataxis |
| 37 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 38 filled | mark |
| 38 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 bag | acl |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 faults | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 faults | nmod:poss |
| 41 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 faults | amod |
| 42 | faults | fault | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 filled | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 born | 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 | bear | present · passive | every MAN and a ancient legend | the world | with two bags | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | suspend | participle | two bags not said here | all bag | eagle's neck | in front | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bag=Theme from neck=Source | ||
| 4 | fill | participle | a large bag not said here | with eagle's own faults | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with fault=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | fault | eagle's neighbors | nom fault «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | fault | eagle | nom fault «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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