Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 101

“I have reasons enough,” said the Bull.

Who acts: Bull · What happens: have, say · To what, where: reasons · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bull), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
4	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
5	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 have	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Bull	det
10	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	the Bull = bull	reasons				enough property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	the Bull						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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