Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 107

Among other things, he said that when he was at Rhodes he had leaped to such a distance that no man of his day could leap anywhere near him as to that, there were in Rhodes many persons who saw him do it and whom he could call as witnesses.

Who acts: man, Rhodes many persons · What happens: say, be, leap, see, do, call · To what, where: Rhodes, distance, man · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (man, Rhodes many persons), 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	Among	among	ADP	_	3 things	case
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 things	amod
3	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 things	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 leaped	mark
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 leaped	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 Rhodes	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 Rhodes	cop
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 Rhodes	case
12	Rhodes	Rhodes	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 leaped	nsubj:pass
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 leaped	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 leaped	aux
15	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 said	ccomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 distance	case
17	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	19 distance	det:predet
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 distance	det
19	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 leaped	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 leap	obj
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 leap	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 day	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 day	nmod:poss
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 man	nmod
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 leap	aux
27	leap	leap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 distance	acl:relcl
28	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 leap	advmod
29	near	near	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 leap	obl
31	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	33 that	case
32	to	to	ADP	_	31 as	fixed
33	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 leaped	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 were	punct
35	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	36 were	expl
36	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	conj
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 persons	case
38	Rhodes	Rhodes	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 persons	compound
39	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 persons	amod
40	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 were	obl
41	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 saw	nsubj
42	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 persons	acl:relcl
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 saw	obj
44	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 saw	xcomp
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 do	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 call	cc
47	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 call	obj
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 call	nsubj
49	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 call	aux
50	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 saw	conj
51	as	as	ADP	_	52 witnesses	case
52	witnesses	witness	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 call	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man			among other things	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is	past	man		Rhodes		tree rules
3	leap	past · perfect · passive		Rhodes		to such distance; as that	vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	leap	could	no man of man's day	such distance		near Rhodes; anywhere property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Trajectory
5	be	past	man not said here		there	in Rhodes many persons	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in person=Location
6	see	past	Rhodes many persons	man			tree rules
7	do	infinitive	man not said here	distance			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
8	call	could	man			as witnesses	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient

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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