Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 5

He was owned by two masters in succession, both inhabitants of Samos, Xanthus and Jadmon, the latter of whom gave him his liberty as a reward for his learning and wit.

Who acts: succession · What happens: own, give · To what, where: honour, liberty

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 (succession), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 owned	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 owned	aux:pass
3	owned	own	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 masters	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 masters	nummod
6	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 owned	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 succession	case
8	succession	succession	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owned	obl:agent
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 inhabitants	punct
10	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	11 inhabitants	det
11	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 owned	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Samos	case
13	Samos	Samos	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 inhabitants	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Xanthus	punct
15	Xanthus	Xanthus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Samos	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Jadmon	cc
17	Jadmon	Jadmon	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Samos	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 latter	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 latter	det
20	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Samos	parataxis
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	23 gave	mark
22	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 gave	nsubj
23	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 latter	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 gave	iobj
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 liberty	nmod:poss
26	liberty	liberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	obj
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 reward	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 reward	det
29	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 gave	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 learning	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 learning	nmod:poss
32	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 reward	nmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 wit	cc
34	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 learning	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 owned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	own	past · passive	succession	honour				by two masters	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme
2	give	past		honour's liberty	honour			as a reward for honour's learning and wit	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient liberty=Theme

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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