Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 7
A FISHERMAN who lived on the produce of his nets, one day caught a single small Fish as the result of his day’s labor.
Who acts: FISHERMAN · What happens: live, catch, result · To what, where: produce, single small Fish, labor
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 (FISHERMAN), 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 FISHERMAN | det |
| 2 | FISHERMAN | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 FISHERMAN | acl:relcl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 produce | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 produce | det |
| 7 | produce | produce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 nets | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 nets | nmod:poss |
| 10 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 produce | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 caught | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 day | nummod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 caught | nsubj |
| 14 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Fish | det |
| 16 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Fish | amod |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Fish | amod |
| 18 | Fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 caught | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 result | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 result | det |
| 21 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 caught | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 labor | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 day | nmod:poss |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 labor | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 day | case |
| 26 | labor | labor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 result | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a FISHERMAN | the produce of Fish's nets | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on produce=Location | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | a FISHERMAN | a single small Fish | as the result of Fish's day's labor | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | |||
| 3 | result | Fish's day's labor | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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