Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 35

But when the war was over, he only allowed him chaff to eat and made him carry heavy loads of wood, subjecting him to much slavish drudgery and ill-treatment.

Who acts: war, SOLDIER · What happens: be over, allow, eat, make, carry, subject · To what, where: chaff, Monkey, SOLDIER, heavy loads

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 (war, SOLDIER), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 allowed	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 was	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 war	det
4	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 was	nsubj
5	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 allowed	advcl
6	over	over	ADV	_	5 was	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 was	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 allowed	nsubj
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 allowed	advmod
10	allowed	allow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 allowed	iobj
12	chaff	chaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 allowed	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 eat	mark
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 chaff	acl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 made	cc
16	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 allowed	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 made	obj
18	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 made	xcomp
19	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 loads	amod
20	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 carry	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 wood	case
22	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 loads	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 subjecting	punct
24	subjecting	subject	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 carry	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 subjecting	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 drudgery	case
27	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 drudgery	amod
28	slavish	slavish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 drudgery	amod
29	drudgery	drudgery	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 subjecting	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 treatment	cc
31	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 treatment	amod
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 ill	punct
33	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 drudgery	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 allowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	be over	past	the war			over property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	allow	past	SOLDIER	chaff	Monkey		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal chaff=Theme
3	eat	to-infinitive	SOLDIER not said here	chaff not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	make	past	SOLDIER not said here	SOLDIER			tree rules
5	carry	infinitive	SOLDIER not said here	heavy loads of wood			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme
6	subject	gerund	SOLDIER not said here	SOLDIER		to much slavish drudgery and ill treatment	tree rules

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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