Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 10
He cried out to his captors, “Pray spare me, and do not take my life without cause or without inquiry.
Who acts: TRUMPETER · What happens: cry out, pray, spare, not take · To what, where: captors, TRUMPETER, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (TRUMPETER), 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 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 cried | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 captors | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 captors | nmod:poss |
| 6 | captors | captor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cried | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Pray | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Pray | punct |
| 9 | Pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 cried | conj |
| 10 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Pray | xcomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 spare | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 take | cc |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 take | advmod |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 cried | parataxis |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 life | nmod:poss |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 19 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 cause | case |
| 20 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 inquiry | cc |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 23 inquiry | case |
| 23 | inquiry | inquiry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cause | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry out speech: express | past | TRUMPETER | TRUMPETER's captors | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to captor=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pray in a quote | infinitive | TRUMPETER not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spare in a quote | infinitive | TRUMPETER not said here | TRUMPETER | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Asset | ||||
| 4 | not take in a quote | infinitive · do-support | my life | without cause or inquiry | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme |
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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