The Aesop for Children, The Fox Without a Tail, sentence 5

He called a meeting of all the Foxes, saying that he had something of great importance to tell the tribe.

Who acts: Fox · What happens: call, say, have, tell · To what, where: meeting, something, tribe · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox Without a Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox), 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 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 meeting	det
4	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 Foxes	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 Foxes	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Foxes	det
8	Foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 meeting	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saying	punct
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 called	advcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 saying	ccomp
14	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	13 had	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 importance	case
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 importance	amod
17	importance	importance	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 something	nmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 tell	mark
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 something	acl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tribe	det
21	tribe	tribe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tell	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	call	past	Fox	a meeting of all Foxes	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent meeting=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Fox not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	past	Fox	something	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
4	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	Fox not said here	the tribe	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tribe=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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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