Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 54

JUPITER ISSUED a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring should be deemed the handsomest.

Who acts: JUPITER · What happens: issue, promise, deem · To what, where: proclamation, beasts, royal reward, one, offspring

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 (JUPITER), 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	JUPITER	JUPITER	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ISSUED	nsubj
2	ISSUED	issue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 proclamation	det
4	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ISSUED	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 beasts	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 beasts	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 beasts	det
8	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ISSUED	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 forest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 beasts	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 promised	cc
13	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ISSUED	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 reward	det
15	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 reward	amod
16	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 promised	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 one	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 one	det
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 promised	obl
20	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	21 offspring	nmod:poss
21	offspring	offspring	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 deemed	nsubj:pass
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 deemed	aux
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 deemed	aux:pass
24	deemed	deem	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 one	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 handsomest	det
26	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 deemed	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ISSUED	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	issue	past	JUPITER	a proclamation	all beasts of the forest	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent proclamation=Theme to beast=Recipient
2	promise speech: promise	past	JUPITER not said here	a royal reward	the one	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent reward=Theme to one=Goal
3	deem	should · passive		offspring		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme handsome=Attribute

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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