Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 5
Jupiter was much displeased, for he loved the race of man, but could not refuse the request because of his promise.
Who acts: mortal, man · What happens: displease, love, not refuse, race, promise · To what, where: Jupiter, race, request
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 (mortal, 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 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 displeased | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 displeased | aux:pass |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 displeased | advmod |
| 4 | displeased | displease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 loved | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 loved | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 loved | nsubj |
| 8 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 displeased | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 race | det |
| 10 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 loved | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 race | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 refuse | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 refuse | cc |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 refuse | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 refuse | advmod |
| 17 | refuse | refuse | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 displeased | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 request | det |
| 19 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 refuse | obj |
| 20 | because | because | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 23 promise | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 because | fixed |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 promise | nmod:poss |
| 23 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 refuse | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 displeased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | displease | past · passive | Jupiter | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | love | past | mortal | the race of man | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer race=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not refuse | could | the request | because mortal's promise | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme | ||||
| 4 | race | man | nom race «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | promise | mortal | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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