Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 107
Jupiter replied, “Why do you blame me without a cause?
Who acts: Jupiter, you · What happens: reply, blame · To what, where: Jupiter · 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 (Jupiter, you), 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 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 blame | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 blame | punct |
| 5 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 blame | advmod |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 blame | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 blame | nsubj |
| 8 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 replied | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 blame | obj |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 12 cause | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cause | det |
| 12 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 blame | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: ask | past | Jupiter | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | blame in a quote | present · do-support | you | Jupiter | without a cause | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
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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