Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 127
The Mule which had been robbed and wounded bewailed his misfortunes.
Who acts: Mule · What happens: rob, wound, bewail · To what, where: Mule, misfortunes
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 (Mule), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mule | det |
| 2 | Mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bewailed | nsubj |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 robbed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 robbed | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 robbed | aux:pass |
| 6 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Mule | acl:relcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wounded | cc |
| 8 | wounded | wound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 robbed | conj |
| 9 | bewailed | bewail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 misfortunes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bewailed | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 bewailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rob | past · perfect · passive | the Mule | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | |||||
| 2 | wound | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | bewail | past | the Mule | owner's misfortunes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer misfortune=Stimulus |
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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