Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 27
The storm still continuing, he was obliged to slaughter his yoke oxen for food.
Who acts: storm · What happens: continue, oblige, slaughter · To what, where: storm, yoke oxen
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 (storm), 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 storm | det |
| 2 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 continuing | nsubj |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 continuing | advmod |
| 4 | continuing | continue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 continuing | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 obliged | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 obliged | aux:pass |
| 8 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 continuing | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 slaughter | mark |
| 10 | slaughter | slaughter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 obliged | xcomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 oxen | nmod:poss |
| 12 | yoke | yoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 oxen | compound |
| 13 | oxen | oxen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slaughter | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 food | case |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 slaughter | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 continuing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | gerund | the storm | still | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | oblige | past · passive | storm | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 3 | slaughter | to-infinitive | storm's yoke oxen | for food | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxen=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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