Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 72
An archer, who saw the Eagle from a place of concealment, took an accurate aim and wounded him mortally.
Who acts: archer · What happens: see, take, wound · To what, where: Eagle, place, accurate aim, archer
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 (archer), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 archer | det |
| 2 | archer | archer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 archer | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Eagle | det |
| 7 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 concealment | case |
| 12 | concealment | concealment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 archer | punct |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 aim | det |
| 16 | accurate | accurate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 aim | amod |
| 17 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wounded | cc |
| 19 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 wounded | obj |
| 21 | mortally | mortally | ADV | _ | 19 wounded | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | a archer | the Eagle | a place of concealment | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eagle=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | take | past | a archer | a accurate aim | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wound | past | a archer not said here | archer | mortally property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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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