Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 6

The Wild Sow, whom you see daily digging up the earth, wishes to uproot the oak, so she may on its fall seize our families as food for her young.”

Who acts: you, Wild Sow · What happens: see, dig up, wish, uproot, seize · To what, where: Wild Sow, earth, oak, families, fall

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 (you, Wild Sow), 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	3 Sow	det
2	Wild	Wild	PROPN	_	3 Sow	flat
3	Sow	Sow	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 wishes	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
5	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 see	obj
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 see	nsubj
7	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 Sow	acl:relcl
8	daily	daily	ADV	_	7 see	advmod
9	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 see	xcomp
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 digging	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 earth	det
12	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 digging	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Sow	punct
14	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 uproot	mark
16	uproot	uproot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wishes	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 oak	det
18	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 uproot	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seize	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 may	advmod
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 may	nsubj
22	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 seize	aux
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 fall	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 fall	nmod:poss
25	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seize	obl
26	seize	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 wishes	conj
27	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 families	nmod:poss
28	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 seize	obj
29	as	as	ADP	_	30 food	case
30	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seize	obl
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 young	case
32	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 young	nmod:poss
33	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seize	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 wishes	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 wishes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	you	the Wild Sow		daily property	tree rules
2	dig up	gerund	the Wild Sow not said here	the earth			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent earth=Theme
3	wish	present	the Wild Sow				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	uproot not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Wild Sow not said here	the oak			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=Theme
5	seize	may	the Wild Sow not said here	our families	oak's fall	as food; for Sow's young	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent family=Theme for young=Beneficiary

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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