Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 26
A CERTAIN MAN, detained by a storm in his country house, first of all killed his sheep, and then his goats, for the maintenance of his household.
Who acts: CERTAIN MAN · What happens: detain, kill, maintain · To what, where: CERTAIN MAN, country house, sheep, household
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 (CERTAIN MAN), 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 | 3 MAN | det |
| 2 | CERTAIN | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 MAN | amod |
| 3 | MAN | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 killed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 detained | punct |
| 5 | detained | detain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 MAN | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 storm | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 storm | det |
| 8 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 detained | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | compound |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 detained | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 first | punct |
| 14 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 killed | advmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 all | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 first | obl |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 killed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 goats | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 goats | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 goats | advmod |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 goats | nmod:poss |
| 24 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 killed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 maintenance | punct |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 maintenance | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 maintenance | det |
| 28 | maintenance | maintenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 killed | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 household | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 household | nmod:poss |
| 31 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 maintenance | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | detain | participle | a CERTAIN MAN not said here | man's country house | by a storm | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | kill | past | a CERTAIN MAN | man's sheep | for the maintenance of man's household; man's goats obl; first property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | |||
| 3 | maintain | man's household | nom maintenance «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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