Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 37
AN ARAB Camel-driver, after completing the loading of his Camel, asked him which he would like best, to go up hill or down.
Who acts: ARAB Camel driver, driver · What happens: complete, ask, like, go up · To what, where: loading, owner, best, hill · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (ARAB Camel driver, driver), 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 | AN | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 driver | det |
| 2 | ARAB | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 driver | amod |
| 3 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 driver | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Camel | punct |
| 5 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 completing | punct |
| 7 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 completing | mark |
| 8 | completing | complete | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 driver | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 loading | det |
| 10 | loading | loading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 completing | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Camel | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Camel | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loading | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 driver | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | iobj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 like | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 like | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 like | aux |
| 20 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 21 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 like | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 go | mark |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 like | conj |
| 25 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 go | compound:prt |
| 26 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 go | obl |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 down | cc |
| 28 | down | down | ADV | _ | 26 hill | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complete | gerund | a ARAB Camel driver not said here | the loading of driver's Camel | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loading=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | a ARAB Camel driver | owner | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | like | would | driver | best | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go up | to-infinitive | driver not said here | hill | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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