Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 71
The Bald Man replied, “I can easily make peace with myself, because I know there was no intention to hurt.
Who acts: Bald Man, intention · What happens: reply, make, know, be, hurt · To what, where: peace · 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 (Bald Man, intention), 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 | 3 Man | det |
| 2 | Bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Man | amod |
| 3 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 make | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 make | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 make | aux |
| 9 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 10 make | advmod |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 replied | ccomp |
| 11 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 myself | case |
| 13 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 make | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 know | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 know | nsubj |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 replied | parataxis |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 was | expl |
| 19 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | ccomp |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 intention | det |
| 21 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 was | nsubj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 hurt | mark |
| 23 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 intention | acl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Bald Man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | can | the Bald Man = man | peace | with the Bald Man = man; easily property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Product | |||
| 3 | know in a quote | present | the Bald Man = man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | be in a quote | past | no intention | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hurt in a quote | to-infinitive | no intention not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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