Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 128

The Ox took under his patronage the next term of life, and therefore man in his middle age is fond of work, devoted to labor, and resolute to amass wealth and to husband his resources.

Who acts: Ox, man · What happens: take, be, devote, amass, patronage, term · To what, where: next term, patronage, labor, wealth, life

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 (Ox, man), 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 Ox	det
2	Ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 patronage	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 patronage	nmod:poss
6	patronage	patronage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 term	det
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 term	amod
9	term	term	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 life	case
11	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 term	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fond	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fond	cc
14	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	15 man	advmod
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fond	nsubj
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 age	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 age	nmod:poss
18	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 age	amod
19	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 man	nmod
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 fond	cop
21	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 took	parataxis
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 work	case
23	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fond	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 devoted	punct
25	devoted	devote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 fond	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 labor	case
27	labor	labor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 devoted	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 resolute	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 resolute	cc
30	resolute	resolute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	32 amass	mark
32	amass	amass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 resolute	acl
33	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 amass	obj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 husband	cc
35	to	to	PART	_	36 husband	mark
36	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 amass	conj
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 resources	nmod:poss
38	resources	resource	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 husband	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the Ox	the next term of life	man's patronage		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent term=Theme
2	is	present	man in man's middle age			of work; fond property	tree rules
3	devote	participle	man in man's middle age not said here			to labor goal	vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent to labor=Goal
4	amass	to-infinitive	the Ox not said here	wealth			vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme
5	patronage		man				nom patronage «act transitive»: poss=agent
6	term			life			nom term «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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