Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 127
The Fishermen after a while gave up fishing, and on going home to dinner left their nets upon the bank.
Who acts: Fishermen · What happens: give up, go, leave · To what, where: fishing, dinner, nets, bank
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fishermen), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fishermen | det |
| 2 | Fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 while | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 while | det |
| 5 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fishermen | nmod |
| 6 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 gave | compound:prt |
| 8 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 left | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 left | cc |
| 11 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 12 going | mark |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 left | advcl |
| 13 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 going | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 dinner | case |
| 15 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 going | obl |
| 16 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gave | conj |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 nets | nmod:poss |
| 18 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 left | obj |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 bank | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bank | det |
| 21 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 left | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | the Fishermen after a while | fishing | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fishing=Source | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | dinner | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to dinner=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | the Fishermen after a while not said here | Fishermen's nets | the bank | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent net=Theme upon bank=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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