The Aesop for Children, The Bundle of Sticks, sentence 4

Then handing the bundle to each of his Sons in turn he told them to try to break it.

Who acts: discord, turn · What happens: hand, tell, try, break · To what, where: bundle, each, turn, Sons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bundle of Sticks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (discord, turn), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 handing	advmod
2	handing	hand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bundle	det
4	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 handing	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 each	case
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 handing	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Sons	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 Sons	nmod:poss
9	Sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 each	nmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 turn	case
11	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Sons	nmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 turn	acl:relcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 try	mark
16	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 told	xcomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 break	mark
18	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 try	xcomp
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 break	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 handing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	hand	gerund		the bundle		each	then	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme to each=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	past	discord	turn not said here	Sons = son			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	turn not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	break not said to happen	to-infinitive	turn not said here	bundle				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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: «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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