Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 100
AN OLD MAN was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying the faggots to the city for sale one day, became very wearied with his long journey.
Who acts: man · What happens: employ, cut, carry, become, weary, journey · To what, where: OLD MAN, wood, forest, faggots, city
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | AN | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 MAN | det |
| 2 | OLD | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 MAN | amod |
| 3 | MAN | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 employed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 employed | aux:pass |
| 5 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 cutting | mark |
| 7 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 employed | advcl |
| 8 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cutting | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 forest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cutting | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 became | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 became | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 and | punct |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 carrying | mark |
| 16 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 became | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 faggots | det |
| 18 | faggots | faggot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 carrying | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 city | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 city | det |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carrying | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 sale | case |
| 23 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 city | nmod |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 day | nummod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sale | nmod:unmarked |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 carrying | punct |
| 27 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 employed | conj |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 wearied | advmod |
| 29 | wearied | weary | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 became | xcomp |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 journey | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 journey | nmod:poss |
| 32 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 journey | amod |
| 33 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wearied | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 employed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | past · passive | a OLD MAN | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cut | gerund | wood | the forest | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | the faggots | the city for sale one day | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent faggot=Theme to city=Destination | ||||
| 4 | become | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | weary | participle | with man's long journey | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | journey | man | nom journey «act 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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