Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 62

A CROW was jealous of the Raven, because he was considered a bird of good omen and always attracted the attention of men, who noted by his flight the good or evil course of future events.

Who acts: CROW, men · What happens: be, consider, attract, note, attend · To what, where: MAN, attention

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 (CROW, men), 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	2 CROW	det
2	CROW	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jealous	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jealous	cop
4	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 Raven	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Raven	det
7	Raven	Raven	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 jealous	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 considered	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 considered	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 considered	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 considered	aux:pass
12	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 jealous	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bird	det
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 considered	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 omen	case
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 omen	amod
17	omen	omen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bird	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 attracted	cc
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 attracted	advmod
20	attracted	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 considered	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 attention	det
22	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 attracted	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 men	case
24	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 attention	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 noted	punct
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 noted	nsubj
27	noted	note	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 men	acl:relcl
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 flight	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 flight	nmod:poss
30	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 noted	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 course	det
32	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 course	amod
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 evil	cc
34	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 good	conj
35	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 flight	nmod
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 events	case
37	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 events	amod
38	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 course	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 jealous	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	a CROW		of the Raven; jealous property	tree rules
2	consider	past · passive		MAN		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme bird=Attribute
3	attract	past		the attention of men	always property	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient
4	note	past	men		by MAN's flight the good course of future events	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	attend		men			nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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