Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 37

The Partridges declared that they would dig around his vines and make them produce finer grapes.

Who acts: Partridges · What happens: declare, dig, make, produce · To what, where: vines, Partridges, finer grapes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Partridges), 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 Partridges	det
2	Partridges	partridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 declared	nsubj
3	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 dig	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dig	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 dig	aux
7	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 declared	ccomp
8	around	around	ADP	_	10 vines	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 vines	nmod:poss
10	vines	vine	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dig	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 make	cc
12	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dig	conj
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 make	obj
14	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 make	xcomp
15	finer	fine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 grapes	amod
16	grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 produce	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 declared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	declare speech: other	past	the Partridges			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	dig	would	Partridges = partridge		Farmer's vines	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent around vine=Location
3	make	infinitive	Partridges = partridge not said here	Partridges = partridge		tree rules
4	produce	infinitive	Partridges = partridge not said here	finer grapes		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grape=Result

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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