Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 121
A PHILOSOPHER witnessed from the shore the shipwreck of a vessel, of which the crew and passengers were all drowned.
What happens: witness, drown · To what, where: PHILOSOPHER, shore, shipwreck
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: 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 PHILOSOPHER | det |
| 2 | PHILOSOPHER | philosopher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | witnessed | witness | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 PHILOSOPHER | acl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 shore | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shore | det |
| 6 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 witnessed | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shipwreck | det |
| 8 | shipwreck | shipwreck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 vessel | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 vessel | det |
| 11 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shipwreck | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 drowned | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 drowned | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 crew | det |
| 16 | crew | crew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 passengers | cc |
| 18 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 crew | conj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 drowned | aux:pass |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 21 drowned | advmod |
| 21 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 shore | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 PHILOSOPHER | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | witness | participle | a PHILOSOPHER not said here | the shore | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | drown | past · passive | the shipwreck of a vessel | of the shore; all property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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