Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 11
In his discharge of these commissions he visited the different petty republics of Greece.
Who acts: Phrygian · What happens: visit, discharge · To what, where: different petty republics, discharge, commissions
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 discharge | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 discharge | nmod:poss |
| 3 | discharge | discharge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 visited | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 commissions | case |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 commissions | det |
| 6 | commissions | commission | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 discharge | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 visited | nsubj |
| 8 | visited | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 republics | det |
| 10 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 republics | amod |
| 11 | petty | petty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 republics | compound |
| 12 | republics | republic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 visited | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Greece | case |
| 14 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 republics | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 visited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | visit | past | Phrygian | the different petty republics of Greece | Phrygian's discharge of this commissions | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent republic=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | discharge | Phrygian | this commissions | nom discharge «event transitive»: poss=agent 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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