Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 123

The Old Woman, standing up in the Court, argued: “This man here speaks the truth in what he says; for I did promise to give him a sum of money if I should recover my sight: but if I continued blind, I was to give him nothing.

Who acts: Old Woman, man, my · What happens: stand up, argue, speak, say, promise, give · To what, where: Court, truth, sum, MAN, sight, nothing · 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 (Old Woman, man, my), 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	3 Woman	det
2	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Woman	amod
3	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 argued	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 standing	punct
5	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 Woman	acl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 standing	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 Court	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Court	det
9	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 standing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Woman	punct
11	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 speaks	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 speaks	punct
14	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 speaks	nsubj
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 man	advmod
17	speaks	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 argued	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 truth	det
19	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 speaks	obj
20	in	in	SCONJ	_	23 says	mark
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 says	obj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 says	nsubj
23	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 speaks	advcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 promise	punct
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	28 promise	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 promise	nsubj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 promise	aux
28	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 argued	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 give	mark
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 promise	xcomp
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 give	iobj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 sum	det
33	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 money	case
35	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sum	nmod
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 recover	mark
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 recover	nsubj
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 recover	aux
39	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 give	advcl
40	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 sight	nmod:poss
41	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 recover	obj
42	:	:	PUNCT	_	52 give	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 give	cc
44	if	if	SCONJ	_	46 continued	mark
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 continued	nsubj
46	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 give	advcl
47	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 continued	xcomp
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 continued	punct
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 give	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 give	aux
51	to	to	PART	_	52 give	mark
52	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 argued	conj
53	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 give	iobj
54	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	52 give	obj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 argued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand up	gerund	the Old Woman not said here			the Court		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in court=Location
2	argue speech: disagree	past	the Old Woman					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	speak speech: other in a quote	present	this man	the truth				tree rules
4	say speech: assert in a quote	present	MAN					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
5	promise speech: promise in a quote	past · do-support	the Old Woman = woman					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	give not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the Old Woman = woman not said here	a sum of money	MAN			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sum=Theme
7	recover a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	should	the Old Woman = woman	my sight				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme
8	continue a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	the Old Woman = woman				blind property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	give in a quote	past	the Old Woman = woman	nothing	MAN			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient nothing=Theme
10	sum in a quote			money				nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient
11	sight in a quote		my					nom sight «cognition 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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