Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 43
A MAN committed a murder, and was pursued by the relations of the man whom he murdered.
Who acts: MAN, relations, Minerva · What happens: commit, pursue, murder · To what, where: murder, man
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, relations, Minerva), 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 MAN | det |
| 2 | MAN | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 committed | nsubj |
| 3 | committed | commit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 murder | det |
| 5 | murder | murder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 committed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pursued | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pursued | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pursued | aux:pass |
| 9 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 committed | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 relations | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 relations | det |
| 12 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pursued | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 relations | nmod |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 murdered | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 murdered | nsubj |
| 18 | murdered | murder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 man | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 committed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | commit | past | a MAN | a murder | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent murder=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pursue | past · passive | the relations of the man | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | murder | past | Minerva | the man | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |
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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