Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 131

The Wolf called out to him and said, “The Priest will slay you in sacrifice, if he should catch you.”

Who acts: Wolf, Priest · What happens: call out, say, slay, catch · To what, where: Wolf, you, sacrifice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, Priest), 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 Wolf	det
2	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Wolf	acl
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 called	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 called	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 slay	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 slay	punct
11	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Priest	det
12	Priest	Priest	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 slay	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 slay	aux
14	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 slay	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 sacrifice	case
17	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 slay	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 catch	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 catch	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 catch	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 catch	aux
22	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 slay	conj
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 catch	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 slay	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 slay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	participle		the Wolf not said here	Wolf		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	past	the Wolf				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	slay in a quote	future	the Priest	you		sacrifice	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
4	catch a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	should	Wolf	you			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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