Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 78
A RICH MAN gave a great feast, to which he invited many friends and acquaintances.
Who acts: RICH MAN, man · What happens: give, invite · To what, where: great feast, many friends
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 (RICH MAN, man), 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 | 3 MAN | det |
| 2 | RICH | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 MAN | amod |
| 3 | MAN | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 feast | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feast | amod |
| 7 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 invited | punct |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 invited | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 invited | nsubj |
| 12 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gave | conj |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 friends | amod |
| 14 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 invited | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 acquaintances | cc |
| 16 | acquaintances | acquaintance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 friends | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | a RICH MAN | a great feast | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | ||||
| 2 | invite | past | man | many friends and acquaintances | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient |
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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