Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 65
A LION, unable from old age and infirmities to provide himself with food by force, resolved to do so by artifice.
What happens: provide, resolve, do · To what, where: Lion
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: 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 LION | det |
| 2 | LION | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 unable | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 unable | punct |
| 4 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 age | case |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 age | amod |
| 7 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 unable | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 infirmities | cc |
| 9 | infirmities | infirmity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 age | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 provide | mark |
| 11 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 unable | advcl |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 provide | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 food | case |
| 14 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 provide | obl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 force | case |
| 16 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 provide | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 resolved | punct |
| 18 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 unable | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 resolved | xcomp |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 do | advmod |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 artifice | case |
| 23 | artifice | artifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | provide | to-infinitive | Lion | with food; by force | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient with food=Theme | ||||
| 2 | resolve | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | by artifice | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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