Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 46
A PIGEON, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard.
Who acts: PIGEON · What happens: oppress, see, paint · To what, where: PIGEON, goblet, signboard
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 (PIGEON), 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 PIGEON | det |
| 2 | PIGEON | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 oppressed | punct |
| 4 | oppressed | oppress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 PIGEON | acl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 thirst | case |
| 6 | excessive | excessive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thirst | amod |
| 7 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 oppressed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 PIGEON | punct |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 goblet | det |
| 11 | goblet | goblet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 goblet | nmod |
| 14 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 goblet | acl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 signboard | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 signboard | det |
| 17 | signboard | signboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 painted | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | oppress | participle | a PIGEON not said here | by excessive thirst | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | a PIGEON | a goblet of water | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goblet=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | paint | participle | a goblet of water not said here | a signboard | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent on signboard=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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