Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 100
A GOATHERD had sought to bring back a stray goat to his flock.
What happens: seek, bring back · To what, where: GOATHERD, stray goat, flock
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 GOATHERD | det |
| 2 | GOATHERD | goatherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sought | aux |
| 4 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 bring | mark |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sought | xcomp |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 bring | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 goat | det |
| 9 | stray | stray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 goat | amod |
| 10 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 flock | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 flock | nmod:poss |
| 13 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past · perfect · passive | a GOATHERD | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring back not said to happen | to-infinitive | a stray goat | Goat's flock | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent goat=Theme to flock=Destination |
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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