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Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 6

Having secured a large booty, the Lion on their return from the forest asked the Ass to allot his due portion to each of the three partners in the treaty.

Who acts: Lion, Ass · What happens: have, secure, ask, allot, return · To what, where: secured large booty, Ass, due portion, treaty, forest

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 (Lion, Ass), 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

advclamoddetamodobjpunctdetnsubjcasenmod:possnmodcasedetnmoddetobjmarkxcompnmod:possamodobjcaseoblcasedetnummodnmodcasedetoblpunctrootHavingVERBsecuredVERBaDETlargeADJbootyNOUN,PUNCTtheDETLionPROPNonADPtheirPRONreturnNOUNfromADPtheDETforestNOUNaskedVERBtheDETAssNOUNtoPARTallotVERBhisPRONdueADJportionNOUNtoADPeachDETofADPtheDETthreeNUMpartnersNOUNinADPtheDETtreatyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HavinghaveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part15 askedadvcl
2securedsecureVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass5 bootyamod
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 bootydet
4largelargeADJDegree=Pos5 bootyamod
5bootybootyNOUNNumber=Sing1 Havingobj
6,,PUNCT_1 Havingpunct
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 Liondet
8LionLionPROPNNumber=Sing15 askednsubj
9ononADP_11 returncase
10theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 returnnmod:poss
11returnreturnNOUNNumber=Sing8 Lionnmod
12fromfromADP_14 forestcase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 forestdet
14forestforestNOUNNumber=Sing11 returnnmod
15askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 Assdet
17AssassNOUNNumber=Sing15 askedobj
18totoPART_19 allotmark
19allotallotVERBVerbForm=Inf15 askedxcomp
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs22 portionnmod:poss
21duedueADJDegree=Pos22 portionamod
22portionportionNOUNNumber=Sing19 allotobj
23totoADP_24 eachcase
24eacheachDETPronType=Tot19 allotobl
25ofofADP_28 partnerscase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 partnersdet
27threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card28 partnersnummod
28partnerspartnerNOUNNumber=Plur24 eachnmod
29ininADP_31 treatycase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 treatydet
31treatytreatyNOUNNumber=Sing19 allotobl
32..PUNCT_15 askedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havegerundthe Lion on Lion's return from the forest not said herea secured large bootyvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent booty=Patient
2secureparticiplevn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3ask speech: askpastthe Lion on Lion's return from the forestthe Assvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent ass=Recipient clause=Topic
4allot not said to happento-infinitivethe Ass not said hereAss's due portionthe treatyto each goalvn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent portion=Theme to each=Goal
5returnLionthe forestnom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent from=place

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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