Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 128
3 (return) [ Some of these fables had, no doubt, in the first instance, a primary and private interpretation.
Who acts: Some · What happens: have
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 (Some), 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 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 3 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 3 | appos |
| 4 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
| 5 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 6 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 had | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fables | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 fables | det |
| 9 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Some | nmod |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 return | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 doubt | punct |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 doubt | det |
| 13 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 return | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 instance | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 instance | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 instance | det |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 instance | amod |
| 18 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 return | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 primary | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 primary | det |
| 21 | primary | primary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 instance | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 interpretation | cc |
| 23 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 interpretation | amod |
| 24 | interpretation | interpretation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 primary | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 3 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Some | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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