Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 104
A SHEPHERD, keeping watch over his sheep near the shore, saw the Sea very calm and smooth, and longed to make a voyage with a view to commerce.
Who acts: SHEPHERD · What happens: keep, see, long, make · To what, where: watch, Sea, voyage
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SHEPHERD), 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 SHEPHERD | det |
| 2 | SHEPHERD | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 keeping | punct |
| 4 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 SHEPHERD | acl |
| 5 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeping | obj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 sheep | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 keeping | obl |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 shore | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shore | det |
| 11 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sheep | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 SHEPHERD | punct |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Sea | det |
| 15 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 calm | advmod |
| 17 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 saw | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 smooth | cc |
| 19 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 calm | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 longed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 longed | cc |
| 22 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 saw | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 longed | xcomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 voyage | det |
| 26 | voyage | voyage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 view | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 view | det |
| 29 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | obl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 commerce | mark |
| 31 | commerce | commerce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | gerund | a SHEPHERD not said here | watch | over straw's sheep near the shore | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme over sheep=Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | a SHEPHERD | the Sea | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sea=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | long | past | a SHEPHERD not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | a SHEPHERD not said here | a voyage | with a view | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset voyage=Product |
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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