Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 70

Jupiter, telling him that it would be the last time that he could grant his request, ordained that he be sold to a tanner.

Who acts: Jupiter, load, Shadow · What happens: tell, be, grant, ordain, sell, request · To what, where: Shadow, last time, request, tanner · 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 (Jupiter, load, Shadow), 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	3 telling	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 telling	punct
3	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 telling	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 time	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 time	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 time	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 time	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 time	det
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 time	amod
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 telling	advcl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 grant	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 grant	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 grant	aux
15	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 telling	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 request	nmod:poss
17	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grant	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ordained	punct
19	ordained	ordain	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 telling	conj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 sold	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sold	nsubj
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 sold	aux:pass
23	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 ordained	advcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 tanner	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 tanner	det
26	tanner	tanner	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sold	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 telling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund	Jupiter		Shadow	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is a	would	load	the last time		tree rules
3	grant	could	Shadow	Shadow's request		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme
4	ordain	past	Jupiter not said here			vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	sell	infinitive · passive		Shadow	a tanner	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to tanner=Recipient
6	request		Shadow			nom request «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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