Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 74
A SHIPWRECKED MAN, having been cast upon a certain shore, slept after his buffetings with the deep.
Who acts: SHIPWRECKED MAN · What happens: shipwreck, cast, sleep · To what, where: SHIPWRECKED MAN, certain shore
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 (SHIPWRECKED MAN), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 MAN | det |
| 2 | SHIPWRECKED | shipwreck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 MAN | amod |
| 3 | MAN | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 slept | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cast | punct |
| 5 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 cast | aux |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 cast | aux:pass |
| 7 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 MAN | acl:relcl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 shore | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 shore | det |
| 10 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 shore | amod |
| 11 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cast | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 MAN | punct |
| 13 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 buffetings | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 buffetings | nmod:poss |
| 16 | buffetings | buffeting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 slept | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 deep | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 deep | det |
| 19 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 slept | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shipwreck | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | cast | gerund · perfect · passive | a SHIPWRECKED MAN not said here | a certain shore | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: upon shore=Destination | ||||
| 3 | sleep | past | a SHIPWRECKED MAN | after man's buffetings | with the deep | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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