Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 32
Each undertook his proper duty in accordance with his own nature and powers.
What happens: undertake · To what, where: proper duty, accordance
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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 undertook | advmod |
| 2 | undertook | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 duty | nmod:poss |
| 4 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 duty | amod |
| 5 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 undertook | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 accordance | case |
| 7 | accordance | accordance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 undertook | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 nature | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 nature | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nature | amod |
| 11 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 undertook | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 powers | cc |
| 13 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 nature | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 undertook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undertake | past | Fox's proper duty | accordance | with Fox's own nature and powers | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality with nature=Subeventuality |
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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