Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 33
The Eagle, persuaded by these words, accepted him as her mate.
Who acts: Eagle · What happens: persuade, accept · To what, where: Eagle, able
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 (Eagle), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Eagle | det |
| 2 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 accepted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 persuaded | punct |
| 4 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Eagle | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 words | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 words | det |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 persuaded | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eagle | punct |
| 9 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 accepted | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 mate | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mate | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 accepted | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 accepted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | persuade | participle | the Eagle not said here | by this words | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | accept | past | the Eagle | able | as Kite's mate | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Theme as mate=Attribute |
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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