Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 9
My broken limb should excite your pity.
Who acts: broken limb, your · What happens: break, excite, pity · To what, where: pity
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 (broken limb, your), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 limb | nmod:poss |
| 2 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 limb | amod |
| 3 | limb | limb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 excite | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 excite | aux |
| 5 | excite | excite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pity | nmod:poss |
| 7 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 excite | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 excite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | excite | should | My broken limb | your pity | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pity=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | pity | your | nom pity «feeling transitive»: poss=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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