Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 124
A FISHERMAN, engaged in his calling, made a very successful cast and captured a great haul of fish.
Who acts: FISHERMAN, acquaintance · What happens: engage, make, capture, call, haul · To what, where: FISHERMAN, calling, successful cast, great haul, fish · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (FISHERMAN, acquaintance), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 FISHERMAN | det |
| 2 | FISHERMAN | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 engaged | punct |
| 4 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 FISHERMAN | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 calling | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 calling | nmod:poss |
| 7 | calling | calling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 engaged | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 FISHERMAN | punct |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 cast | det |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 successful | advmod |
| 12 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cast | amod |
| 13 | cast | cast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 captured | cc |
| 15 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 haul | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 haul | amod |
| 18 | haul | haul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 captured | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 fish | case |
| 20 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 haul | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | participle | a FISHERMAN not said here | in acquaintance's calling goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in calling=Goal | ||||
| 2 | make | past | a FISHERMAN | a successful cast | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cast=Product | ||||
| 3 | capture | past | a FISHERMAN not said here | a great haul of fish | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent haul=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call | acquaintance | nom calling «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | haul | fish | nom haul «act 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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