Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 22
Jupiter chose the oak, Venus the myrtle, Apollo the laurel, Cybele the pine, and Hercules the poplar.
Who acts: Jupiter · What happens: choose · To what, where: oak
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), 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 chose | nsubj |
| 2 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 oak | det |
| 4 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chose | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Venus | punct |
| 6 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 oak | appos |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 myrtle | det |
| 8 | myrtle | myrtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Venus | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Apollo | punct |
| 10 | Apollo | Apollo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Venus | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 laurel | det |
| 12 | laurel | laurel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Apollo | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Cybele | punct |
| 14 | Cybele | Cybele | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Venus | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pine | det |
| 16 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Cybele | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Hercules | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Hercules | cc |
| 19 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 chose | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 poplar | det |
| 21 | poplar | poplar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Hercules | appos |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | Jupiter | the oak | Hercules obl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=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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