Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 106
A TRAVELER wearied from a long journey lay down, overcome with fatigue, on the very brink of a deep well.
Who acts: TRAVELER · What happens: weary, lay down, overcome · To what, where: TRAVELER, long journey, brink
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (TRAVELER), 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 TRAVELER | det |
| 2 | TRAVELER | traveler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | wearied | weary | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 TRAVELER | acl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 journey | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 journey | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 journey | amod |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wearied | obl |
| 8 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 lay | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 overcome | punct |
| 11 | overcome | overcome | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lay | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 fatigue | case |
| 13 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 overcome | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brink | punct |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 brink | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 brink | det |
| 17 | very | very | ADV | _ | 18 brink | advmod |
| 18 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 well | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 well | det |
| 21 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 well | amod |
| 22 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brink | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weary | participle | a TRAVELER not said here | a long journey | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | lay down | infinitive | a TRAVELER | the brink of a deep well | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on brink=Destination | |||
| 3 | overcome | infinitive | a TRAVELER not said here | with fatigue | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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