Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 44

17 (return) [ Scazonic, or halting, iambics; a choliambic (a lame, halting iambic) differs from the iambic Senarius in always having a spondee or trochee for its last foot; the fifth foot, to avoid shortness of metre, being generally an iambic.

Who acts: 17 return, lame · What happens: halt, differ, have, avoid, be · To what, where: fifth foot, spondee, shortness

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (17 return, lame), 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	17	17	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 return	nummod
2	(	(	PUNCT	_	3 return	punct
3	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 differs	nsubj
4	)	)	PUNCT	_	3 return	punct
5	[	[	PUNCT	_	6 Scazonic	punct
6	Scazonic	Scazonic	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 return	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 halting	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 halting	cc
9	halting	halt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 Scazonic	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 iambics	punct
11	iambics	iambic	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Scazonic	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 choliambic	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 choliambic	det
14	choliambic	choliambic	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 differs	nsubj
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	17 lame	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lame	det
17	lame	lame	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 choliambic	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 halting	punct
19	halting	halt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 lame	acl
20	iambic	iambic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 halting	xcomp
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	17 lame	punct
22	differs	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	from	from	ADP	_	26 Senarius	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Senarius	det
25	iambic	iambic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Senarius	amod
26	Senarius	Senarius	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 differs	obl
27	in	in	SCONJ	_	29 having	mark
28	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	29 having	advmod
29	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 differs	advcl
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 spondee	det
31	spondee	spondee	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 having	obj
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 trochee	cc
33	trochee	trochee	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 spondee	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	37 foot	case
35	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 foot	nmod:poss
36	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 foot	amod
37	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 having	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 foot	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 foot	det
40	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 foot	amod
41	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 differs	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 avoid	punct
43	to	to	PART	_	44 avoid	mark
44	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 foot	acl:relcl
45	shortness	shortness	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 avoid	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 metre	case
47	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 shortness	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 iambic	punct
49	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	52 iambic	cop
50	generally	generally	ADV	_	52 iambic	advmod
51	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 iambic	det
52	iambic	iambic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 avoid	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 differs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	halt	gerund	17 return not said here			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	halt	gerund	a lame not said here		iambic property	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	differ	present	17 return	the fifth foot	from the iambic Senarius	vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from senarius=Co-Theme
4	have	gerund	17 return not said here	a spondee or trochee	for choliambic's last foot; always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spondee=Patient
5	avoid	to-infinitive	17 return not said here	shortness of metre		vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent shortness=Location
6	is	gerund	17 return not said here		generally, iambic property	tree rules

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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