Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 59

The Nightingale, about to lose his life, earnestly begged the Hawk to let him go, saying that he was not big enough to satisfy the hunger of a Hawk who, if he wanted food, ought to pursue the larger birds.

Who acts: Nightingale, hunger, Hawk · What happens: lose, beg, let, go, say, not be · To what, where: life, Hawk, nightingale, hunger, food, larger birds · 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 (Nightingale, hunger, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Nightingale	det
2	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lose	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lose	punct
4	about	about	ADV	_	6 lose	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 lose	mark
6	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 life	nmod:poss
8	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lose	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 begged	punct
10	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	11 begged	advmod
11	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lose	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Hawk	det
13	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 begged	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 let	mark
15	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 begged	ccomp
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 let	obj
17	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 let	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 begged	advcl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 big	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 big	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 big	cop
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 big	advmod
24	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 saying	ccomp
25	enough	enough	ADV	_	24 big	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 satisfy	mark
27	satisfy	satisfy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 big	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hunger	det
29	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 satisfy	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Hawk	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 Hawk	det
32	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 hunger	nmod
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 wanted	nsubj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 wanted	punct
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 wanted	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 wanted	nsubj
37	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 hunger	acl:relcl
38	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 wanted	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 pursue	punct
40	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 pursue	aux
41	to	to	PART	_	42 pursue	mark
42	pursue	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 lose	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 birds	det
44	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	45 birds	amod
45	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 pursue	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	lose	to-infinitive	the Nightingale	nightingale's life		about property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality
2	beg speech: request	past	the Nightingale not said here		the Hawk	earnestly property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent hawk=Recipient clause=Topic
3	let not said to happen	to-infinitive		nightingale			tree rules
4	go	infinitive	nightingale not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	say speech: assert	gerund	the Nightingale not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	not is	past	nightingale			big, enough property	tree rules
7	satisfy	to-infinitive	nightingale not said here	the hunger of a Hawk			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunger=Experiencer
8	want a condition, not said to happen	past	the hunger of a Hawk	food			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme
9	pursue	ought	the Nightingale not said here	the larger birds			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme
10	hunger		a Hawk				nom hunger «state intransitive»: of=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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