Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 46

“There,” said one of them, “it proves what I was a-saying.

Who acts: group, I · What happens: say, prove, be · To what, where: one · 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 (group, I), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 said	expl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 There	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 There	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 said	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 proves	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 proves	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 proves	nsubj
12	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 saying	obj
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 saying	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saying	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 saying	det
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 a	punct
18	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 proves	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past		one of Miller	there		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic
2	prove in a quote	present	group				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	is in a quote	past	I			say property	tree rules

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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