Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 130

Thus, the fables of the “Eagle and the Fox” and of the “Fox and Monkey” are supposed to have been written by Archilochus, to avenge the injuries done him by Lycambes.

Who acts: Archilochus, injuries · What happens: suppose, write, avenge, do · To what, where: fables, injuries, Archilochus

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 (Archilochus, injuries), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	22 supposed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thus	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fables	det
4	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 supposed	nsubj:pass
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 Eagle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Eagle	det
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 Eagle	punct
8	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fables	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Fox	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Fox	det
11	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Eagle	conj
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 Fox	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Fox	cc
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 Fox	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Fox	det
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 Fox	punct
17	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fables	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Monkey	cc
19	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 Fox	conj
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 Fox	punct
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 supposed	aux:pass
22	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
23	to	to	PART	_	26 written	mark
24	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 written	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 written	aux:pass
26	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 supposed	xcomp
27	by	by	ADP	_	28 Archilochus	case
28	Archilochus	Archilochus	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 written	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 avenge	punct
30	to	to	PART	_	31 avenge	mark
31	avenge	avenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 supposed	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 injuries	det
33	injuries	injury	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 avenge	obj
34	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 injuries	acl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 done	obj
36	by	by	ADP	_	37 Lycambes	case
37	Lycambes	Lycambes	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 done	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 supposed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	suppose	present · passive		the fables of the Eagle and the Fox and the Fox and Monkey	thus property	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
2	write	to-infinitive · perfect · passive	Archilochus			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	avenge	to-infinitive		the injuries		tree rules
4	do	participle	the injuries not said here	Archilochus	by Lycambes	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

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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