Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 108
After a long and fruitless search, he made a vow that, if he could only discover the thief who had stolen the Calf, he would offer a lamb in sacrifice to Hermes, Pan, and the Guardian Deities of the forest.
Who acts: calf, thief · What happens: make, discover, steal, offer · To what, where: vow, thief, Calf, lamb, sacrifice
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (calf, thief), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 6 search | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 search | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 search | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fruitless | cc |
| 5 | fruitless | fruitless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 long | conj |
| 6 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 search | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 vow | det |
| 11 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 vow | dep |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 discover | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 discover | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 discover | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 discover | aux |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 discover | advmod |
| 18 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 thief | det |
| 20 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 discover | obj |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 stolen | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 stolen | aux |
| 23 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 thief | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Calf | det |
| 25 | Calf | Calf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 stolen | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 offer | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 offer | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 offer | aux |
| 29 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 discover | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 lamb | det |
| 31 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 offer | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 sacrifice | case |
| 33 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 offer | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 Hermes | case |
| 35 | Hermes | Hermes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 sacrifice | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Pan | punct |
| 37 | Pan | Pan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Hermes | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Deities | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 Deities | cc |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Deities | det |
| 41 | Guardian | guardian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 Deities | amod |
| 42 | Deities | deity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 forest | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 forest | det |
| 45 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Deities | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | calf | a vow | after a long search | the Guardian Deities of the forest obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Product | ||
| 2 | discover a condition, not said to happen | could | calf | the thief | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Topic | ||||
| 3 | steal | past · perfect | the thief | the Calf | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location calf=Theme | ||||
| 4 | offer | would | calf | a lamb | sacrifice to Hermes and Pan | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent lamb=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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