Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 82

A wild-boar Hunter, seeing her distress, stood at a distance and said to her, “Think how many men there are who have reason to lament the loss of their children, whose deaths have been caused by you.”

Who acts: wild boar, many men, boar · What happens: see, stand, say, think, be, have · To what, where: distress, boar, reason, loss, deaths · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (wild boar, many men, boar), 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 boar	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 boar	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 wild	punct
4	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stood	nsubj
5	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 boar	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seeing	punct
7	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 boar	acl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 distress	nmod:poss
9	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seeing	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 distance	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 distance	det
14	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stood	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stood	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 her	case
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Think	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 Think	punct
21	Think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
22	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 many	advmod
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 men	amod
24	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 are	nsubj
25	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	26 are	expl
26	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 Think	ccomp
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 have	nsubj
28	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 are	ccomp
29	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 have	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 lament	mark
31	lament	lament	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 reason	acl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 loss	det
33	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lament	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 children	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 children	nmod:poss
36	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 loss	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 caused	punct
38	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	39 deaths	nmod:poss
39	deaths	death	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 caused	nsubj:pass
40	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 caused	aux
41	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	42 caused	aux:pass
42	caused	cause	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 loss	appos
43	by	by	ADP	_	44 you	case
44	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 caused	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 Think	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 Think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	a wild boar not said here	boar's distress				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer distress=Stimulus
2	stand	past	a wild boar				at a distance	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location
3	say speech: assert	past	a wild boar not said here		boar			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient clause=Topic
4	think speech: other in a quote	infinitive						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	does in a quote	present	many men			there		tree rules
6	have in a quote	present		reason				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
7	lament in a quote	to-infinitive		the loss of Bull's children				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus
8	cause in a quote	present · perfect · passive	boar	deaths				vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Patient
9	distress		boar					nom distress «feeling transitive»: poss=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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