Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 22
After a few days he came forth and slaughtered the cattle, and, killing the Shepherds who had attacked him, raged with angry fury.
Who acts: Shepherd · What happens: come, slaughter, kill, attack, rage · To what, where: cattle, Shepherds, Shepherd
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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 days | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 slaughtered | cc |
| 9 | slaughtered | slaughter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cattle | det |
| 11 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slaughtered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 attacked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 attacked | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 attacked | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Shepherds | det |
| 17 | Shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 killing | obj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 attacked | aux |
| 20 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 came | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 attacked | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 raged | punct |
| 23 | raged | rage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 attacked | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 fury | case |
| 25 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fury | amod |
| 26 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 raged | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Shepherd | day | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | slaughter | past | Shepherd not said here | the cattle | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Patient | ||||
| 3 | kill | gerund | the Shepherds | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Theme | |||||
| 4 | attack | past · perfect · passive | Shepherd | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | rage | participle | with angry fury | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fury=Theme |
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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