Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 31
“Why, are you able to secure the means of living by your plunder?”
Who acts: you, able, your · What happens: be, secure, mean, live, plunder · To what, where: the · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, able, your), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 able | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 able | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 able | cop |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 able | nsubj |
| 6 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 means | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 secure | mark |
| 8 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 able | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 secure | obj |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 living | mark |
| 12 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 means | ccomp |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 plunder | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 plunder | nmod:poss |
| 15 | plunder | plunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 living | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | secure in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition the=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mean in a quote | present | able | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | live in a quote | gerund | by your plunder | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by plunder=Location | |||||
| 5 | plunder in a quote | your | nom plunder «possession 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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