Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 60

The Hawk, interrupting him, said: “I should indeed have lost my senses if I should let go food ready in my hand, for the sake of pursuing birds which are not yet even within sight.”

Who acts: Hawk, pursuing birds · What happens: interrupt, say, lose, let, go, pursue · To what, where: nightingale, senses, food · 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 (Hawk, pursuing birds), 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 Hawk	det
2	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 interrupting	punct
4	interrupting	interrupt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Hawk	acl
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 interrupting	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hawk	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 lost	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 lost	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 lost	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 lost	aux
12	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	14 lost	advmod
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 lost	aux
14	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 let	advcl
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 senses	nmod:poss
16	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 lost	obj
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 let	mark
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 let	nsubj
19	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 let	aux
20	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
22	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obj
23	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 go	xcomp
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 hand	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 hand	nmod:poss
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 ready	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sake	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 sake	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sake	det
30	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 let	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 birds	case
32	pursuing	pursue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 birds	amod
33	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 sake	nmod
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 sight	nsubj
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 sight	cop
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 sight	advmod
37	yet	yet	ADV	_	40 sight	advmod
38	even	even	ADV	_	40 sight	advmod
39	within	within	ADP	_	40 sight	case
40	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 birds	acl:relcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	interrupt	gerund	the Hawk not said here	nightingale			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Hawk				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lose in a quote	should · perfect	the Hawk = hawk	my senses		indeed property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Eventuality
4	let a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	should	the Hawk = hawk			for the sake of pursuing birds	tree rules
5	go in a quote	infinitive	the Hawk = hawk not said here	food		ready property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme
6	pursue in a quote	gerund					vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
7	not is in a quote	present	pursuing birds		yet	within sight	tree rules

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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