Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 109

THE PURCHASER of a black servant was persuaded that the color of his skin arose from dirt contracted through the neglect of his former masters.

Who acts: color · What happens: persuade, arise, contract, neglect · To what, where: PURCHASER, dirt, neglect, former masters

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 (color), 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 PURCHASER	det
2	PURCHASER	PURCHASER	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 persuaded	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 servant	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 servant	det
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 servant	amod
6	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 PURCHASER	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 persuaded	aux:pass
8	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 arose	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 color	det
11	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 arose	nsubj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 skin	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 skin	nmod:poss
14	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 color	nmod
15	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 persuaded	advcl
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 dirt	case
17	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 arose	obl
18	contracted	contract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 dirt	acl
19	through	through	ADP	_	21 neglect	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 neglect	det
21	neglect	neglect	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 contracted	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 masters	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 masters	nmod:poss
24	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 masters	amod
25	masters	master	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 neglect	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 persuaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	persuade	past · passive		the PURCHASER of a black servant		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	arise	past	the color of death's skin		dirt	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	contract	participle		dirt not said here	the neglect of death's former masters	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	neglect			death's former masters		nom neglect «cognition transitive»: of=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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