Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 14
Having been sent to Delphi with a large sum of gold for distribution among the citizens, he was so provoked at their covetousness that he refused to divide the money, and sent it back to his master.
Who acts: Phrygian · What happens: send, provoke, refuse, not divide, send back, sum · To what, where: Delphi, Phrygian, covetousness, money, master, gold
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 | Having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sent | aux |
| 2 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 sent | aux:pass |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Delphi | case |
| 5 | Delphi | Delphi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 sum | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sum | det |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sum | amod |
| 9 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sum | nmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 distribution | case |
| 13 | distribution | distribution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sum | nmod |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 citizens | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 citizens | det |
| 16 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sent | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 provoked | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 provoked | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 provoked | aux:pass |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 provoked | advmod |
| 21 | provoked | provoke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sent | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 covetousness | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 covetousness | nmod:poss |
| 24 | covetousness | covetousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 provoked | obl |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 refused | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 refused | nsubj |
| 27 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 provoked | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 divide | mark |
| 29 | divide | divide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 refused | xcomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 money | det |
| 31 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 divide | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sent | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sent | cc |
| 34 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sent | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 sent | obj |
| 36 | back | back | ADV | _ | 34 sent | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 master | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 master | nmod:poss |
| 39 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sent | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | gerund · perfect · passive | Delphi | with a large sum of gold for distribution; among the citizens | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: to delphi=Destination | ||||
| 2 | provoke | past · passive | Phrygian | citizens's covetousness | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | refuse | past | Phrygian | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not divide | to-infinitive | Phrygian not said here | the money | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme | ||||
| 5 | send back | past | money | Phrygian's master | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to master=Destination | ||||
| 6 | sum | gold | for distribution | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient for=obl |
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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