Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 97

He approached the Bull and said, “I have slain a fine sheep, my friend; and if you will come home and partake of him with me, I shall be delighted to have your company.”

Who acts: Lion, you · What happens: approach, say, slay, come, partake, be · To what, where: Bull, fine sheep, company · 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 (Lion, you), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 approached	nsubj
2	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Bull	det
4	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 approached	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 said	cc
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 approached	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 slain	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 slain	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 slain	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 slain	aux
11	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 said	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sheep	det
13	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sheep	amod
14	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 slain	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 friend	punct
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 friend	nmod:poss
17	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sheep	conj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 come	cc
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 come	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 come	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 come	aux
23	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 approached	parataxis
24	home	home	ADV	_	23 come	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 partake	cc
26	partake	partake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 come	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 partake	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 me	case
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 partake	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 delighted	punct
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 delighted	nsubj
33	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 delighted	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 delighted	cop
35	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 come	parataxis
36	to	to	PART	_	37 have	mark
37	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 delighted	advcl
38	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 company	nmod:poss
39	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 have	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 come	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 approached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	approach	past	Lion	the Bull		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Lion not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	slay in a quote	present · perfect	Lion	a fine sheep and my friend		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient
4	come a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	future	you		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	partake in a quote	infinitive	you not said here		of Lion; with Lion	tree rules
6	is in a quote	shall	Lion		delighted property	tree rules
7	have in a quote	to-infinitive	Lion not said here	your company		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Patient

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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