Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 122

The Physician insisted on his claim, and, as she still refused, summoned her before the Judge.

Who acts: Physician, infirmity · What happens: insist, refuse, summon, claim · To what, where: claim, infirmity

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 (Physician, infirmity), 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 Physician	det
2	Physician	Physician	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 insisted	nsubj
3	insisted	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 claim	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 claim	nmod:poss
6	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 insisted	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 summoned	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 summoned	cc
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 and	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 refused	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 refused	nsubj
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 refused	advmod
13	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 summoned	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 refused	punct
15	summoned	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 insisted	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 summoned	obj
17	before	before	ADP	_	19 Judge	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Judge	det
19	Judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 summoned	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 insisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	insist speech: other	past	the Physician		physician's claim		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	refuse	past	infirmity			still	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	summon	past	the Physician not said here	infirmity		before the Judge	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
4	claim		physician				nom claim «communication 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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