Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 135
The Partridge earnestly begged him to spare his life, saying, “Pray, master, permit me to live and I will entice many Partridges to you in recompense for your mercy to me.”
Who acts: Partridge · What happens: beg, spare, say, permit, live, entice · To what, where: Horse, life, Pray, Partridge, many Partridges, recompense · 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 (Partridge), 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 Partridge | det |
| 2 | Partridge | Partridge | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 4 begged | advmod |
| 4 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 begged | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 spare | mark |
| 7 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 begged | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 life | nmod:poss |
| 9 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spare | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saying | punct |
| 11 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 begged | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Pray | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Pray | punct |
| 14 | Pray | Pray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 saying | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 master | punct |
| 16 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Pray | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 permit | punct |
| 18 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 saying | advcl |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 permit | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 live | mark |
| 21 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 permit | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 entice | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 entice | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 entice | aux |
| 25 | entice | entice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 begged | conj |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Partridges | amod |
| 27 | Partridges | partridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 entice | obj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 you | case |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 entice | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 recompense | case |
| 31 | recompense | recompense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 entice | obl |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 mercy | case |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 mercy | nmod:poss |
| 34 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 entice | obl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 me | case |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 entice | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 entice | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 entice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the Partridge | Horse | earnestly property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | spare not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Partridge not said here | Horse's life | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Partridge not said here | Pray and master | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pray=Topic | ||||
| 4 | permit in a quote | infinitive | the Partridge not said here | the Partridge = partridge | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | live not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Partridge not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | entice in a quote | future | the Partridge = partridge | many Partridges | Horse | recompense | for your mercy; to the Partridge = partridge | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent partridge=Patient to you=Result |
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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