Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 108

JUPITER DETERMINED, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds, and made proclamation that on a certain day they should all present themselves before him, when he would himself choose the most beautiful among them to be king.

Who acts: JUPITER, Birds · What happens: determine, say, create, make, present, choose · To what, where: Jackdaw, sovereign, proclamation, beautiful · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (JUPITER, Birds), 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	JUPITER	JUPITER	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 DETERMINED	nsubj
2	DETERMINED	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 said	aux:pass
6	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 DETERMINED	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 create	punct
8	to	to	PART	_	9 create	mark
9	create	create	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sovereign	det
11	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 create	obj
12	over	over	ADP	_	14 birds	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 birds	det
14	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 create	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 made	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 made	cc
17	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 DETERMINED	parataxis
18	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 made	obj
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 present	obj
20	on	on	ADP	_	23 day	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 day	det
22	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 day	amod
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 present	obl
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 present	nsubj
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 present	aux
26	all	all	ADV	_	27 present	advmod
27	present	present	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 proclamation	acl:relcl
28	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 present	obj
29	before	before	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 present	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 choose	punct
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 choose	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 choose	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 choose	aux
35	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 choose	nsubj
36	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 made	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 beautiful	det
38	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	39 beautiful	advmod
39	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 choose	obj
40	among	among	ADP	_	44 king	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 king	nsubj
42	to	to	PART	_	44 king	mark
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 king	cop
44	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 beautiful	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 DETERMINED	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	determine	past	JUPITER				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present · passive		Jackdaw			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
3	create	to-infinitive		a sovereign		over the birds	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sovereign=Result
4	make	past		proclamation			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset proclamation=Product
5	present	should	Birds = bird	proclamation	before JUPITER; day	all property	tree rules
6	choose	would	JUPITER	the beautiful			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beautiful=Theme
7	is	to-infinitive	Birds = bird			among king	tree rules

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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