Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 13
One of these ambassadorial missions, undertaken at the command of Crœsus, was the occasion of his death.
Who acts: Phrygian · What happens: undertake, be, command, die · To what, where: ambassadorial missions, command, occasion, Crœsus · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 missions | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 missions | det |
| 4 | ambassadorial | ambassadorial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 missions | amod |
| 5 | missions | mission | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 One | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 undertaken | punct |
| 7 | undertaken | undertake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 missions | acl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 command | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 command | det |
| 10 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 undertaken | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Crœsus | case |
| 12 | Crœsus | Crœsus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 command | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 occasion | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 occasion | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 occasion | det |
| 16 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 One | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 death | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 death | nmod:poss |
| 19 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 occasion | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undertake | participle | this ambassadorial missions not said here | the command of Crœsus | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the occasion | of Phrygian's death | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | command | Crœsus | nom command «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | die | Phrygian | nom death «event 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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