Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 35
THE WASPS and the Partridges, overcome with thirst, came to a Farmer and besought him to give them some water to drink.
Who acts: WASPS · What happens: overcome, come, beseech, give, drink · To what, where: Farmer, water, Wasps
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (WASPS), 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 WASPS | det |
| 2 | WASPS | wasp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 overcome | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Partridges | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Partridges | det |
| 5 | Partridges | partridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 WASPS | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 WASPS | punct |
| 7 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 thirst | case |
| 9 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 overcome | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 overcome | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Farmer | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Farmer | det |
| 14 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 besought | cc |
| 16 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 came | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 besought | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 give | mark |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 besought | xcomp |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 give | iobj |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 water | det |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 drink | mark |
| 24 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 give | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | present | the WASPS and the Partridges | with thirst | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | come | past | to a Farmer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farmer=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | beseech | past | Farmer | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | some water | Wasps = wasp | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient water=Theme | ||||
| 5 | drink | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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