Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 7
No one truly forgets injuries in the presence of him who caused the injury.
Who acts: one, presence · What happens: forget, cause · To what, where: injuries, presence, injury
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 (one, presence), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forgets | nsubj |
| 3 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 4 forgets | advmod |
| 4 | forgets | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | injuries | injury | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 forgets | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 presence | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 presence | det |
| 8 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forgets | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 presence | nmod |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 caused | nsubj |
| 12 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 presence | acl:relcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 injury | det |
| 14 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caused | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgets | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | present | no one | injuries | the presence of Snake | truly property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | cause | past | the presence of Snake | the injury | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition injury=Patient |
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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