Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 66

Not long afterwards the Lion had a combat with a wild bull, and called on the Dolphin to help him.

Who acts: Lion · What happens: have, call, help · To what, where: combat, Lion · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Lion), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 afterwards	advmod
3	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Lion	det
5	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 combat	det
8	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 bull	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bull	det
11	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bull	amod
12	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 combat	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 called	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 called	cc
15	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 had	parataxis
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 Dolphin	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Dolphin	det
18	Dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 called	obl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 help	mark
20	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 called	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 help	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Lion	a combat		with a wild bull; afterwards property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent combat=Patient
2	call	participle				on the Dolphin	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	help	to-infinitive			Lion		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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