Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 61

As this afforded only protection for one, and as the Traveler and the owner of the Ass both claimed it, a violent dispute arose between them as to which of them had the right to the Shadow.

Who acts: violent dispute · What happens: afford, claim, arise, have · To what, where: this, Ass, right

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 (violent dispute), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 afforded	mark
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 afforded	nsubj:pass
3	afforded	afford	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 protection	advmod
5	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 afforded	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 one	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 afforded	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 claimed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 claimed	cc
10	as	as	ADP	_	12 Traveler	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Traveler	det
12	Traveler	Traveler	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 claimed	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 owner	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 owner	det
15	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Traveler	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Ass	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Ass	det
18	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 owner	nmod
19	both	both	ADV	_	20 claimed	advmod
20	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 afforded	parataxis
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 claimed	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 arose	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 dispute	det
24	violent	violent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 dispute	amod
25	dispute	dispute	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 arose	nsubj
26	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 claimed	conj
27	between	between	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 arose	obl
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 had	mark
30	to	to	ADP	_	29 as	fixed
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 had	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	obl
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 arose	advcl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 right	det
36	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 Shadow	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Shadow	det
39	Shadow	Shadow	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 right	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 afforded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	afford	participle · passive		this	for one	tree rules
2	claim speech: other	past		Ass	as the Traveler and the owner of the Ass; both property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	arise	past	a violent dispute		between Travelers = traveler	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between they=Location
4	have	past	a violent dispute not said here	the right	of Travelers = traveler; to the Shadow	tree rules

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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