Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 140

After some time they began to think themselves ill-treated in the appointment of so inert a Ruler, and sent a second deputation to Jupiter to pray that he would set over them another sovereign.

Who acts: Frogs, Jupiter · What happens: begin, think, treat, send, pray, set · To what, where: Frogs, appointment, second deputation, Jupiter, sovereign · 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 (Frogs, Jupiter), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 began	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 began	nsubj
5	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 think	mark
7	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 began	xcomp
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 think	obj
9	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 treated	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 ill	punct
11	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 think	ccomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 appointment	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 appointment	det
14	appointment	appointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 treated	obl
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 inert	mark
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 inert	advmod
17	inert	inert	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 appointment	amod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 Ruler	det
19	Ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 inert	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sent	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sent	cc
22	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 began	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 deputation	det
24	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 deputation	amod
25	deputation	deputation	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sent	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 Jupiter	case
27	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 sent	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 pray	mark
29	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sent	advcl
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 set	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 set	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 set	aux
33	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 pray	ccomp
34	over	over	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 set	obl
36	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	37 sovereign	det
37	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 set	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Frogs = frog				time		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	think speech: other	to-infinitive	Frogs = frog not said here	Frogs = frog					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent themselves=Attribute clause=Theme
3	treat	participle				the appointment			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
4	send	past	Frogs = frog not said here	a second deputation	Jupiter				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent deputation=Theme to jupiter=Destination
5	pray	to-infinitive	Frogs = frog not said here						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	set	would	Jupiter	another sovereign				over Frogs = frog	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sovereign=Theme over they=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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