Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 81

Among them came a Buffoon well known among the populace for his jokes, and said that he had a kind of entertainment which had never been brought out on any stage before.

Who acts: Buffoon, NOBLEMAN · What happens: come, know, say, have, not bring out, joke · To what, where: Buffoon, kind, stage · 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 (Buffoon, NOBLEMAN), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	2 them	case
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	obl
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 Buffoon	det
5	Buffoon	buffoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 known	advmod
7	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 Buffoon	acl
8	among	among	ADP	_	10 populace	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 populace	det
10	populace	populace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 known	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 jokes	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 jokes	nmod:poss
13	jokes	joke	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 populace	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 kind	det
21	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 entertainment	case
23	entertainment	entertainment	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kind	nmod
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 brought	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 brought	aux
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	28 brought	advmod
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 brought	aux:pass
28	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 kind	acl:relcl
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 brought	compound:prt
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 stage	case
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 stage	det
32	stage	stage	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brought	obl
33	before	before	ADV	_	28 brought	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	a Buffoon			among performers = performer	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among they=Location
2	know	participle		a Buffoon not said here		among the populace for NOBLEMAN's jokes; well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	have	past	NOBLEMAN	a kind of entertainment			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient
5	not bring out	past · perfect · passive		a kind of entertainment	any stage	before property	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
6	joke		NOBLEMAN				nom joke «communication intransitive»: 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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