Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 103

A JACKDAW, seeing some Doves in a cote abundantly provided with food, painted himself white and joined them in order to share their plentiful maintenance.

Who acts: JACKDAW · What happens: see, provide, paint, join, share, maintain · To what, where: Doves, cote, man, order, plentiful maintenance

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (JACKDAW), 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 JACKDAW	det
2	JACKDAW	jackdaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 provided	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 seeing	punct
4	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 JACKDAW	acl
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 Doves	det
6	Doves	Dove	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 seeing	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 cote	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cote	det
9	cote	cote	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seeing	obl
10	abundantly	abundantly	ADV	_	11 provided	advmod
11	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 food	case
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 provided	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 painted	punct
15	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 provided	conj
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 painted	obj
17	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 painted	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 joined	cc
19	joined	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 painted	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 joined	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	22 order	case
22	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 joined	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 share	mark
24	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 joined	advcl
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 maintenance	nmod:poss
26	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 maintenance	amod
27	maintenance	maintenance	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 share	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 provided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	a JACKDAW not said here	some Doves	a cote		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dove=Stimulus
2	provide	past	a JACKDAW			with food; abundantly property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with food=Theme
3	paint	past	a JACKDAW not said here	man		white property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Destination
4	join	past	a JACKDAW not said here	Doves = dove	order		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	share	to-infinitive	a JACKDAW not said here	Jackdaw's plentiful maintenance			tree rules
6	maintain		Jackdaw				nom maintenance «act 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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