Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 143
As they were disputing, they passed a statue carved in stone, which represented “a Lion strangled by a Man.”
Who acts: Lion, statue · What happens: dispute, pass, carve, represent, strangle · To what, where: statue, stone, Lion
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 (Lion, statue), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 disputing | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 disputing | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disputing | aux |
| 4 | disputing | dispute | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 passed | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 disputing | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 passed | nsubj |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 statue | det |
| 9 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 represented | nsubj |
| 10 | carved | carve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 statue | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 stone | case |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carved | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 represented | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 represented | nsubj |
| 15 | represented | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | ccomp |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 strangled | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Lion | det |
| 18 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 strangled | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | strangled | strangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 represented | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 Man | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Man | det |
| 22 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 strangled | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 passed | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dispute | past · progressive | Lion | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pass | past | Lion | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | carve | participle | a statue not said here | stone | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in stone=Destination | ||||
| 4 | represent | past | a statue | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | strangle in a quote | participle | a statue not said here | a Lion | by a Man | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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