Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Life of Aesop, sentence 7

In his desire alike to instruct and to be instructed, he travelled through many countries, and among others came to Sardis, the capital of the famous king of Lydia, the great patron, in that day, of learning and of learned men.

Who acts: Æsop · What happens: instruct, travel, come, learn, desire · To what, where: desire, many countries, Sardis

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 (Æsop), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 desire	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 desire	nmod:poss
3	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 instruct	obl
4	alike	alike	ADV	_	6 instruct	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 instruct	mark
6	instruct	instruct	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 instructed	cc
8	to	to	PART	_	10 instructed	mark
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 instructed	aux:pass
10	instructed	instruct	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 instruct	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 travelled	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 travelled	nsubj
13	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 instruct	parataxis
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 countries	case
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 countries	amod
16	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 travelled	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 came	cc
19	among	among	ADP	_	20 others	case
20	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 came	obl
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 travelled	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 Sardis	case
23	Sardis	Sardis	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 capital	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 capital	det
26	capital	capital	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Sardis	appos
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 king	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 king	det
29	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 king	amod
30	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 capital	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 Lydia	case
32	Lydia	Lydia	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 king	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 patron	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 patron	det
35	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 patron	amod
36	patron	patron	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 king	conj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 day	punct
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 day	case
39	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 day	det
40	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 learning	punct
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 learning	case
43	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	obl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 men	cc
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 men	case
46	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 men	amod
47	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 learning	conj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 instruct	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	to-infinitive		Æsop's desire		alike property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
2	instruct speech: other	to-infinitive · passive					vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»
3	travel	past	Æsop = æsop	many countries			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through country=Trajectory
4	come	past	Æsop = æsop not said here	Sardis	day	among others; of learning and learned men	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to sardis=Initial_Location of learning=Destination
5	learn	participle					vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	desire		Æsop = æsop				nom desire «feeling 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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