Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 8

A MAN who had been bitten by a Dog went about in quest of someone who might heal him.

Who acts: Dog, MAN, someone · What happens: bite, go about, heal, quest · To what, where: MAN, quest

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 (Dog, MAN, someone), 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 MAN	det
2	MAN	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 bitten	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bitten	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 bitten	aux:pass
6	bitten	bite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 MAN	acl:relcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 Dog	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Dog	det
9	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bitten	obl:agent
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	about	about	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 quest	case
13	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 someone	case
15	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 quest	nmod
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 heal	nsubj
17	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 heal	aux
18	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 someone	acl:relcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 heal	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bite	past · perfect · passive	a Dog	a MAN			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
2	go about	past	a MAN		quest of someone	about property	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	heal	might		Man			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	quest		someone				nom quest «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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