Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 39
“Nay, my friend,” replied the other, “do not say ‘I,’ but ‘We’ have found an axe.”
Who acts: friend, We · What happens: reply, not say, find · To what, where: other, friend, axe · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (friend, We), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 8 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 other | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 say | punct |
| 13 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 say | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 say | advmod |
| 15 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 I | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 say | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 I | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 I | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 found | cc |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 found | punct |
| 22 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 found | nsubj |
| 23 | ’ | ' | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 found | aux |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 found | aux |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 say | conj |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 axe | det |
| 27 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 found | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | my friend | the other | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert in a quote | infinitive · do-support | my friend = friend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Topic | |||||
| 3 | find in a quote | perfect | We | a axe | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Topic |
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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