Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 122
He inveighed against the injustice of Providence, which would for the sake of one criminal perchance sailing in the ship allow so many innocent persons to perish.
Who acts: Philosopher, one criminal perchance · What happens: inveigh, sail, allow, perish · To what, where: ship, many innocent persons
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 (Philosopher, one criminal perchance), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 inveighed | nsubj |
| 2 | inveighed | inveigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 injustice | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 injustice | det |
| 5 | injustice | injustice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 allow | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Providence | case |
| 7 | Providence | Providence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 injustice | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sake | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 sake | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 sake | aux |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 sake | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sake | det |
| 13 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Providence | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 perchance | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 perchance | nummod |
| 16 | criminal | criminal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 perchance | amod |
| 17 | perchance | perchance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sake | nmod |
| 18 | sailing | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 perchance | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 ship | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ship | det |
| 21 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sailing | obl |
| 22 | allow | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 inveighed | parataxis |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 many | advmod |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 persons | amod |
| 25 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 persons | amod |
| 26 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 allow | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 perish | mark |
| 28 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 persons | acl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 inveighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inveigh | past | Philosopher | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sail | gerund | one criminal perchance not said here | the ship | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | allow | present | many innocent persons | against the injustice of Providence | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | perish | to-infinitive | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=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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