Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 15

The Delphians, enraged at this treatment, accused him of impiety, and, in spite of his sacred character as ambassador, executed him as a public criminal.

Who acts: Delphians, spite · What happens: enrage, accuse, execute, spite · To what, where: treatment, Phrygian, sacred character

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 (Delphians, spite), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Delphians	det
2	Delphians	Delphian	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 enraged	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 enraged	punct
4	enraged	enrage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 treatment	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 treatment	det
7	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 enraged	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 accused	punct
9	accused	accuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 enraged	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 accused	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 impiety	case
12	impiety	impiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 accused	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 executed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 executed	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 spite	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 spite	case
17	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 executed	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 character	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 character	nmod:poss
20	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 character	amod
21	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spite	nmod
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 ambassador	case
23	ambassador	ambassador	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 character	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 spite	punct
25	executed	execute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 enraged	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 executed	obj
27	as	as	ADP	_	30 criminal	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 criminal	det
29	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 criminal	amod
30	criminal	criminal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 executed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 enraged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enrage	past	the Delphians		this treatment		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	accuse	past	the Delphians not said here	Phrygian		of impiety	vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme of impiety=Attribute
3	execute	past	spite of Phrygian's sacred character as ambassador	Phrygian		as a public criminal	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	spite			Phrygian's sacred character as ambassador			nom spite «feeling 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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