Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 108

One of the bystanders interrupted him, saying: “Now, my good man, if this be all true there is no need of witnesses.

Who acts: One, this, need · What happens: interrupt, say, be, need · To what, where: man, witnesses · 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 (One, this, need), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 interrupted	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 bystanders	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bystanders	det
4	bystanders	bystander	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 interrupted	obl
5	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 interrupted	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saying	punct
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 interrupted	advcl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 man	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 man	punct
11	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 man	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 man	punct
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 man	nmod:poss
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	amod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saying	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 man	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 true	mark
18	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 true	nsubj
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 true	cop
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 true	det
21	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 saying	ccomp
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 is	expl
23	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 true	conj
24	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 need	det
25	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 is	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 witnesses	case
27	witnesses	witness	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 need	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 interrupted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	interrupt	past	One	man		of the bystanders	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	One not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive	this			true property	tree rules
4	be in a quote	present	no need of witnesses		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	need in a quote			witnesses			nom need «state transitive»: of=patient

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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