Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 72
On the day appointed for the race the two started together.
Who acts: two · What happens: appoint, start
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 (two), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appointed | obl |
| 4 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 race | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 race | det |
| 7 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appointed | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 two | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 started | nsubj |
| 10 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 appointed | parataxis |
| 11 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 started | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | participle | day | for the race | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | start | past | the two | together property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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