Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 21
THE GODS, according to an ancient legend, made choice of certain trees to be under their special protection.
What happens: accord, make, be · To what, where: special protection
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: 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 GODS | det |
| 2 | GODS | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 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 GODS | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 choice | punct |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 choice | amod |
| 11 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 legend | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 trees | case |
| 13 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 trees | amod |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 choice | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 protection | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 protection | cop |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 20 protection | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 protection | nmod:poss |
| 19 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 protection | amod |
| 20 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trees | acl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 GODS | 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 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | Gods's special protection | 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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