Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 129
On the first occasion of their being composed they were intended to refer to some passing event, or to some individual acts of wrong-doing.
Who acts: first occasion, individual acts · What happens: compose, intend, refer, pass, do · To what, where: primary, first occasion
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 (first occasion, individual acts), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 occasion | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 occasion | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 occasion | amod |
| 4 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 intended | obl |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 composed | mark |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 composed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 composed | aux:pass |
| 8 | composed | compose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 occasion | acl:relcl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 intended | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 intended | aux:pass |
| 11 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 refer | mark |
| 13 | refer | refer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 intended | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 event | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 event | det |
| 16 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 event | amod |
| 17 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 refer | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 acts | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 acts | cc |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 acts | case |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 acts | det |
| 22 | individual | individual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 acts | amod |
| 23 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 intended | obl |
| 24 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 27 doing | mark |
| 25 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 doing | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 wrong | punct |
| 27 | doing | do | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 acts | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 intended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compose | gerund · passive | the first occasion not said here | primary | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | intend | past · passive | primary | the first occasion | to some individual acts | tree rules | |||
| 3 | refer not said to happen | to-infinitive | to some passing event | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to event=Co-Theme | |||||
| 4 | pass | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | do | gerund | some individual acts not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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