Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 1

A VERY POOR MAN, a Carpenter by trade, had a wooden image of Mercury, before which he made offerings day by day, and begged the idol to make him rich, but in spite of his entreaties he became poorer and poorer.

Who acts: POOR MAN, MAN · What happens: have, make, beg, become, image, spite · To what, where: wooden image, idol, MAN, spite, Mercury, entreaties

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (POOR 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	4 MAN	det
2	VERY	very	ADV	_	3 POOR	advmod
3	POOR	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 MAN	amod
4	MAN	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Carpenter	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Carpenter	det
7	Carpenter	carpenter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 MAN	appos
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 trade	case
9	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Carpenter	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 MAN	punct
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 image	det
13	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 image	amod
14	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 Mercury	case
16	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 image	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
18	before	before	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 made	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 made	nsubj
21	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 had	conj
22	offerings	offering	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 day	compound
23	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obj
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 day	case
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 begged	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 begged	cc
28	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 had	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 idol	det
30	idol	idol	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 begged	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 make	mark
32	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 begged	advcl
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 make	obj
34	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 make	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 became	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 became	cc
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 spite	case
38	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 became	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 entreaties	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 entreaties	nmod:poss
41	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 spite	nmod
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 became	nsubj
43	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 had	conj
44	poorer	poor	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	43 became	xcomp
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 poorer	cc
46	poorer	poor	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	44 poorer	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	a POOR MAN	a wooden image of Mercury			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Patient
2	make	past	MAN		day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	beg speech: request	past	a POOR MAN not said here	the idol			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent idol=Recipient
4	make	to-infinitive	a POOR MAN not said here	MAN		rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
5	become	past	MAN			in spite of MAN's entreaties result; poor property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in spite=Result
6	image			Mercury			nom image «cognition transitive»: of=patient
7	spite			MAN's entreaties			nom spite «feeling 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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