Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 39

But the Farmer interrupted them, saying: “I have already two oxen, who, without making any promises, do all these things.

Who acts: Farmer, two oxen · What happens: interrupt, say, have, make, do · To what, where: Wasps, two oxen, promises, things · 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 (Farmer, two oxen), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 interrupted	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Farmer	det
3	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 interrupted	nsubj
4	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 interrupted	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 interrupted	advcl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 have	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 saying	ccomp
12	already	already	ADV	_	13 two	advmod
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 oxen	nummod
14	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 have	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 making	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 making	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 making	punct
18	without	without	SCONJ	_	19 making	mark
19	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 oxen	acl
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 promises	det
21	promises	promise	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 making	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 do	punct
23	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 have	conj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 things	det:predet
25	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 things	det
26	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 do	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 interrupted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	interrupt	past	the Farmer	Wasps = wasp	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the Farmer not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have in a quote	present	the Farmer = farmer	two oxen	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Patient
4	make in a quote	gerund	two oxen	any promises	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Product
5	do in a quote	infinitive	the Farmer = farmer not said here	all things	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality

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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