Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 105
“It is true, O Jupiter!” he said, “that I am gigantic in strength, handsome in shape, and powerful in attack.
Who acts: war, Jupiter · What happens: be, say · To what, where: strength, shape, attack · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 true | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 true | cop |
| 4 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Jupiter | punct |
| 6 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 7 Jupiter | discourse |
| 7 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 true | vocative |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 true | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gigantic | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 gigantic | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 gigantic | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 gigantic | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 gigantic | cop |
| 17 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 strength | case |
| 19 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gigantic | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 handsome | punct |
| 21 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gigantic | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 shape | case |
| 23 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 handsome | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 powerful | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 powerful | cc |
| 26 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gigantic | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 attack | case |
| 28 | attack | attack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 powerful | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | war | Jupiter vocative; true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Jupiter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Jupiter | strength | gigantic property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be in a quote | Jupiter not said here | shape | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be in a quote | Jupiter not said here | attack | tree rules |
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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