Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 91
The Cock defended himself by saying that he did this for the benefit of men, that they might rise in time for their labours.
Who acts: Cock, Cat · What happens: defend, say, do, rise · To what, where: Cock, this · 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 (Cock, Cat), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Cock | det |
| 2 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 defended | nsubj |
| 3 | defended | defend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 defended | obj |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 6 saying | mark |
| 6 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 defended | advcl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 did | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saying | ccomp |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 did | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 benefit | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 benefit | det |
| 13 | benefit | benefit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 did | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 benefit | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rise | punct |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 rise | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rise | nsubj |
| 19 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 rise | aux |
| 20 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 defended | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rise | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 labours | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 labours | nmod:poss |
| 25 | labours | labour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 rise | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 defended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | defend | past | the Cock | Cock | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Cock not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | past | Cock | this | for the benefit of men | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | rise | might | Cat | time | for Cat's labours | vn assuming_position-50 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/91/