Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 59
SOME CRANES made their feeding grounds on some plowlands newly sown with wheat.
Who acts: SOME CRANES · What happens: make, sow · To what, where: feeding grounds, plowlands
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 (SOME CRANES), 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 | SOME | some | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 CRANES | amod |
| 2 | CRANES | crane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 grounds | nmod:poss |
| 5 | feeding | feeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grounds | compound |
| 6 | grounds | grounds | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 made | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 plowlands | case |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 plowlands | det |
| 9 | plowlands | plowland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obl |
| 10 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 11 sown | advmod |
| 11 | sown | sow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 plowlands | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 wheat | case |
| 13 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sown | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | SOME CRANES | Cranes's feeding grounds | some plowlands | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material grounds=Product | |||
| 2 | sow | participle | some plowlands not said here | with wheat; newly property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wheat=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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