Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 31
A HOUND, who in the days of his youth and strength had never yielded to any beast of the forest, encountered in his old age a boar in the chase.
Who acts: HOUND · What happens: not yield, encounter · To what, where: HOUND, beast, boar, old age
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 (HOUND), 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 HOUND | det |
| 2 | HOUND | hound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 encountered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 yielded | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 yielded | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 days | det |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 yielded | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 youth | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 youth | nmod:poss |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 days | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 strength | cc |
| 12 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 youth | conj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 yielded | aux |
| 14 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 yielded | advmod |
| 15 | yielded | yield | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 HOUND | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 beast | case |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 beast | det |
| 18 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 yielded | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 forest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 forest | det |
| 21 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 beast | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 encountered | punct |
| 23 | encountered | encounter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 age | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 age | nmod:poss |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 age | amod |
| 27 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 encountered | obl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 boar | det |
| 29 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 encountered | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 chase | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 chase | det |
| 32 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 encountered | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 encountered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not yield | past · perfect · passive | a HOUND | day | to any beast of the forest goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to beast=Goal | |||
| 2 | encounter | past | a HOUND | a boar | in Hound's old age | in the chase | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer boar=Stimulus |
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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