Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 17

The citizens of Delphi were visited with a series of calamities, until they made a public reparation of their crime; and, “The blood of Æsop” became a well-known adage, bearing witness to the truth that deeds of wrong would not pass unpunished.

Who acts: citizens, blood, truth, wrong · What happens: visit, make, become, know, bear, deed · To what, where: citizens, public reparation, known adage, witness, crime

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 (citizens, blood, truth, wrong), 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 citizens	det
2	citizens	citizen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 visited	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Delphi	case
4	Delphi	Delphi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 citizens	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 visited	aux:pass
6	visited	visit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 series	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 series	det
9	series	series	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 visited	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 calamities	case
11	calamities	calamity	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 series	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 made	punct
13	until	until	SCONJ	_	15 made	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 made	nsubj
15	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 visited	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 reparation	det
17	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 reparation	amod
18	reparation	reparation	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 made	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 crime	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 crime	nmod:poss
21	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reparation	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 became	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 became	cc
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 became	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 became	punct
26	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 blood	det
27	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 became	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Æsop	case
29	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 blood	nmod
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 Æsop	punct
31	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 visited	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 adage	det
33	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	35 known	advmod
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 well	punct
35	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 adage	amod
36	adage	adage	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 became	xcomp
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 bearing	punct
38	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 became	advcl
39	witness	witness	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bearing	obj
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 truth	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 truth	det
42	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bearing	obl
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 deeds	nsubj
44	deeds	deed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 truth	acl:relcl
45	of	of	SCONJ	_	49 pass	mark
46	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 pass	nsubj
47	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 pass	aux
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 pass	advmod
49	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 deeds	advcl
50	unpunished	unpunished	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 pass	xcomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 visited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	visit	past · passive		the citizens of Delphi	with a series of calamities	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent
2	make	past	citizens = citizen	a public reparation of citizens's crime		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset reparation=Product
3	become	past	the blood of Æsop	a known adage		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	know	participle			well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	bear	gerund	the blood of Æsop not said here	witness	to the truth	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witness=Patient
6	deed	present	the truth			tree rules
7	not pass	would	wrong		unpunished property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	repair			citizens's crime		nom reparation «possession transitive»: of=patient
9	incriminate		citizens = citizen			nom crime «act transitive»: 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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