Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 9
He called them to his bedside and said, “My sons, there is a great treasure hid in one of my vineyards.”
Who acts: monster, sons, great treasure · What happens: call, say, be, hide · To what, where: sons, bedside · 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 (monster, sons, great treasure), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bedside | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bedside | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bedside | bedside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sons | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sons | punct |
| 11 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sons | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 is | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sons | acl:relcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 treasure | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 treasure | amod |
| 18 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hid | nsubj |
| 19 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 is | ccomp |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 hid | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 vineyards | case |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 vineyards | nmod:poss |
| 24 | vineyards | vineyard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 one | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sons | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sons | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | monster | sons = son | monster's bedside | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Topic to bedside=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | monster not said here | My sons | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent son=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | My sons not said here | there | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hide in a quote | past | a great treasure | in one of my vineyards | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in one=Location |
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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