Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 46
A Boar rushed upon him, and avenged with a stroke of his tusks a long-remembered injury.
Who acts: Boar · What happens: rush, avenge, remember, stroke · To what, where: tusks
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 (Boar), 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 Boar | det |
| 2 | Boar | Boar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rushed | nsubj |
| 3 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rushed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 avenged | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 avenged | cc |
| 8 | avenged | avenge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rushed | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 stroke | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 stroke | det |
| 11 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 avenged | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tusks | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tusks | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stroke | nmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 injury | det |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 remembered | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 long | punct |
| 18 | remembered | remember | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 injury | amod |
| 19 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tusks | nsubj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | a Boar | upon Lion | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | avenge | participle | a Boar not said here | with a stroke of Lion's tusks | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remember | participle | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | stroke | Lion's tusks | nom stroke «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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