Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 58

A NIGHTINGALE, sitting aloft upon an oak and singing according to his wont, was seen by a Hawk who, being in need of food, swooped down and seized him.

Who acts: NIGHTINGALE, Hawk · What happens: sit, sing, accord, see, be, swoop down · To what, where: oak, wont, NIGHTINGALE, need, food

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 (NIGHTINGALE, Hawk), 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 NIGHTINGALE	det
2	NIGHTINGALE	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seen	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sitting	punct
4	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 NIGHTINGALE	acl
5	aloft	aloft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sitting	xcomp
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 oak	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 oak	det
8	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 singing	cc
10	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 sitting	conj
11	according	accord	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 singing	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 wont	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wont	nmod:poss
14	wont	wont	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 according	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 NIGHTINGALE	punct
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 seen	aux:pass
17	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 Hawk	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 Hawk	det
20	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 seen	obl
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 Hawk	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 need	punct
23	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 need	cop
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 need	case
25	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 who	nsubj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 food	case
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 need	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 swooped	punct
29	swooped	swoop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 food	acl
30	down	down	ADP	_	29 swooped	compound:prt
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 seized	cc
32	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 swooped	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 seized	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund	a NIGHTINGALE not said here		a oak	aloft property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon oak=Location
2	sing speech: express	gerund	a NIGHTINGALE not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	accord	gerund	a NIGHTINGALE not said here			to nightingale's wont goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to wont=Goal
4	see	past · passive	a Hawk	a NIGHTINGALE			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
5	is	gerund			need	of food	tree rules
6	swoop down	participle		food not said here			tree rules
7	seize	past		nightingale			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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