Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 10
On the invitation of Crœsus he fixed his residence at Sardis, and was employed by that monarch in various difficult and delicate affairs of State.
Who acts: Phrygian, monarch · What happens: fix, employ, invite · To what, where: residence, invitation, various difficult affairs, Crœsus
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Life of Aesop. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Phrygian, monarch), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 invitation | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 invitation | det |
| 3 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fixed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Crœsus | case |
| 5 | Crœsus | Crœsus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 invitation | nmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fixed | nsubj |
| 7 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 residence | nmod:poss |
| 9 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fixed | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 Sardis | case |
| 11 | Sardis | Sardis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fixed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 employed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 employed | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 employed | aux:pass |
| 15 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fixed | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 monarch | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 monarch | det |
| 18 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 employed | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 affairs | case |
| 20 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 affairs | amod |
| 21 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 affairs | amod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 delicate | cc |
| 23 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 difficult | conj |
| 24 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 employed | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 State | case |
| 26 | State | State | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 affairs | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past | Phrygian | Phrygian's residence | the invitation of Crœsus | at Sardis | vn price-54.4 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent residence=Theme at sardis=Value | ||
| 2 | employ | past · passive | that monarch | various difficult affairs of State | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | invite | Crœsus | nom invitation «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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