Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 10

Some time after, the Shepherd, being imprisoned on a false accusation, was condemned “to be cast to the Lions” as the punishment for his imputed crime.

Who acts: Shepherd · What happens: imprison, condemn, cast, impute, incriminate · To what, where: Shepherd, false accusation

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shepherd), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 condemned	obl:unmarked
3	after	after	ADV	_	2 time	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Shepherd	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Shepherd	det
6	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 time	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 imprisoned	punct
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 imprisoned	aux:pass
9	imprisoned	imprison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Shepherd	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 accusation	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 accusation	det
12	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 accusation	amod
13	accusation	accusation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 imprisoned	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 time	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 condemned	aux:pass
16	condemned	condemn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 condemned	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	20 cast	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 cast	aux:pass
20	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 condemned	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 Lions	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Lions	det
23	Lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cast	obl
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 cast	punct
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 punishment	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 punishment	det
27	punishment	punishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 cast	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 crime	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 crime	nmod:poss
30	imputed	impute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 crime	amod
31	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 punishment	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 condemned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	imprison	gerund · passive		the Shepherd not said here	a false accusation			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on accusation=Destination
2	condemn	past · passive				time		vn suspect-81 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»
3	cast in a quote	to-infinitive · passive					to the Lions; as the punishment for Shepherd's imputed crime	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: as punishment=Attribute
4	impute	participle						tree rules
5	incriminate		Shepherd					nom crime «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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