Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 103

THE LARK (according to an ancient legend) was created before the earth itself, and when her father died, as there was no earth, she could find no place of burial for him.

Who acts: father, earth, Lark · What happens: accord, create, die, be, find · To what, where: LARK, place

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 (father, earth, Lark), 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 LARK	det
2	LARK	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 created	nsubj:pass
3	(	(	PUNCT	_	8 legend	punct
4	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 legend	case
5	to	to	ADP	_	4 according	fixed
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 legend	det
7	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 legend	amod
8	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 LARK	appos
9	)	)	PUNCT	_	8 legend	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 created	aux:pass
11	created	create	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	before	before	ADP	_	14 earth	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 earth	det
14	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 created	obl
15	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	14 earth	nmod:unmarked
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 was	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 was	cc
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 died	mark
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 died	nsubj
21	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 was	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 died	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 was	mark
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 created	parataxis
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 earth	det
27	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 was	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 find	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 find	nsubj
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 find	aux
31	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 created	parataxis
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 place	det
33	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 find	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 burial	case
35	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 place	nmod
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 him	case
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 find	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 created	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accord	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	create	past · passive		the LARK		before the earth earth		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result
3	die	past	Lark's father					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	be	past	no earth		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	find	could	Lark	no place of burial			for Father	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent place=Theme for he=Beneficiary

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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