Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 73
MERCURY once determined to learn in what esteem he was held among mortals.
What happens: learn, hold · To what, where: esteem, Shadow, mortals
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: 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 | MERCURY | mercury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 determined | nsubj |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 determined | advmod |
| 3 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 learn | mark |
| 5 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 determined | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 esteem | case |
| 7 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 8 esteem | det |
| 8 | esteem | esteem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 learn | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 held | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 held | aux:pass |
| 11 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 esteem | acl:relcl |
| 12 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 mortals | case |
| 13 | mortals | mortal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 held | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | to-infinitive | what esteem | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hold | past · passive | Shadow | mortals | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme among mortal=Location |
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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