Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 123

A HALF-FAMISHED JACKDAW seated himself on a fig-tree, which had produced some fruit entirely out of season, and waited in the hope that the figs would ripen.

Who acts: FAMISHED JACKDAW, figs · What happens: famish, seat, produce, wait, ripen · To what, where: Jackdaw, fig tree, hope

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 (FAMISHED JACKDAW, figs), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 JACKDAW	det
2	HALF	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	4 FAMISHED	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 HALF	punct
4	FAMISHED	famish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 JACKDAW	amod
5	JACKDAW	JACKDAW	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 seated	nsubj
6	seated	seat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 seated	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	12 tree	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tree	det
10	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tree	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 fig	punct
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seated	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 produced	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 produced	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 produced	aux
16	produced	produce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 tree	acl:relcl
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 fruit	det
18	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 produced	obj
19	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	16 produced	advmod
20	out	out	ADP	_	22 season	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 season	case
22	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 produced	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 waited	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 waited	cc
25	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seated	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 hope	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hope	det
28	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 waited	obl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 ripen	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 figs	det
31	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 ripen	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 ripen	aux
33	ripen	ripen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 waited	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	famish	participle						tree rules
2	seat	past	a FAMISHED JACKDAW	Jackdaw	a fig tree			vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value
3	produce	past · perfect · passive		a fig tree		season	entirely property	tree rules
4	wait	past	a FAMISHED JACKDAW not said here		the hope			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hope=Location
5	ripen	would	the figs					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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