Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 28
A FLEA settled upon the bare foot of a Wrestler and bit him, causing the man to call loudly upon Hercules for help.
Who acts: man · What happens: settle, bite, cause, call · To what, where: FLEA, Jupiter, man · 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 (man), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 FLEA | det |
| 2 | FLEA | flea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 foot | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 foot | det |
| 6 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 foot | amod |
| 7 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 settled | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Wrestler | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Wrestler | det |
| 10 | Wrestler | Wrestler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 foot | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bit | cc |
| 12 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 settled | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 bit | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 causing | punct |
| 15 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 bit | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 causing | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 call | mark |
| 19 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 causing | xcomp |
| 20 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 19 call | advmod |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 Hercules | case |
| 22 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 call | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 help | case |
| 24 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 call | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | participle · passive | a FLEA | upon the bare foot of a Wrestler | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location | ||||
| 2 | bite | past | Jupiter | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 3 | cause | gerund | the man | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | call | to-infinitive | the man not said here | upon Hercules; for help; loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
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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