Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 61

The loiterer often blames delay on his more active friend.

Who acts: loiterer · What happens: blame · To what, where: delay

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 (loiterer), 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 loiterer	det
2	loiterer	loiterer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blames	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 blames	advmod
4	blames	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blames	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 friend	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 friend	nmod:poss
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 active	advmod
9	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 friend	amod
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blames	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 blames	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blame	present	the loiterer	delay				on loiterer's active friend; often property	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent delay=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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