Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 86

The Bowman immediately shot out an arrow and said to the Lion: “I send thee my messenger, that from him thou mayest learn what I myself shall be when I assail thee.”

Who acts: Bowman, that · What happens: shoot out, say, send, learn, be · To what, where: arrow, Lion, thee · 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 (Bowman, that), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bowman	det
2	Bowman	bowman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
3	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	4 shot	advmod
4	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Bowman	acl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 shot	compound:prt
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 arrow	det
7	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shot	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 shot	cc
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 Lion	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Lion	det
12	Lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 send	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 send	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 send	nsubj
16	send	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 said	parataxis
17	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 send	obj
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 messenger	nmod:poss
19	messenger	messenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 send	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 learn	punct
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 learn	nsubj
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 that	nmod
24	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	26 learn	nsubj
25	mayest	may	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	26 learn	aux
26	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 send	conj
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 assail	obj
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 assail	nsubj
29	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	28 I	obl:unmarked
30	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 assail	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 assail	cop
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	34 assail	advmod
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 assail	nsubj
34	assail	assail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 learn	ccomp
35	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	34 assail	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	shoot out	participle	the Bowman not said here	a arrow		immediately property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the Bowman		the Lion		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to lion=Recipient clause=Topic
3	send in a quote	present	the Bowman = bowman	thee			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Destination messenger=Theme
4	learn in a quote	may	that				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is in a quote	shall	the Bowman = bowman			assail property	tree rules

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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