Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 98
Hercules, it is said, appeared and thus addressed him: “Put your shoulders to the wheels, my man.
Who acts: Hercules · What happens: say, appear, address, put · To what, where: wagon, driver, shoulders · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Hercules), 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 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 appeared | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hercules | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | aux:pass |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Hercules | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hercules | punct |
| 7 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 addressed | cc |
| 9 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 10 addressed | advmod |
| 10 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 appeared | conj |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 addressed | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Put | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Put | punct |
| 14 | Put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 addressed | conj |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 16 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Put | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 wheels | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wheels | det |
| 19 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Put | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 man | punct |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 man | nmod:poss |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Put | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | wagon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | appear | past | Hercules | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | address | past | Hercules not said here | driver | thus property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination | |||
| 4 | put in a quote | infinitive | Hercules not said here | your shoulders | to the wheels; my man obl | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Goal |
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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