Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 109
Suppose this to be Rhodes, and leap for us.”
Who acts: you · What happens: suppose, be, leap · To what, where: this, Rhodes · 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 (you), 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 | Suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Suppose | obj |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 Rhodes | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Rhodes | cop |
| 5 | Rhodes | rhode | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Suppose | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 leap | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 leap | cc |
| 8 | leap | leap | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Suppose | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 us | case |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 leap | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suppose | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suppose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose | imperative | you not said here | this | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent this=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | Rhodes | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | leap | infinitive | you not said here | for us | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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