Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 111

One of them said, “The Sun, now while he is single, parches up the marsh, and compels us to die miserably in our arid homes.

Who acts: One, Sun · What happens: say, be, parch up, compel, die · To what, where: marsh, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, Sun), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 said	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 parches	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 parches	punct
7	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Sun	det
8	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 parches	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 single	punct
10	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 single	advmod
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 single	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 single	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 single	cop
14	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Sun	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Sun	punct
16	parches	parch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	parataxis
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 parches	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 marsh	det
19	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 parches	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 compels	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 compels	cc
22	compels	compel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 parches	conj
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 compels	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 die	mark
25	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 compels	xcomp
26	miserably	miserably	ADV	_	25 die	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 homes	case
28	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 homes	nmod:poss
29	arid	arid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 homes	amod
30	homes	home	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 die	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	One of Frogs				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	Sun		now	single property	tree rules
3	parch up in a quote	present	the Sun	the marsh			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent marsh=Patient
4	compel in a quote	present	the Sun not said here	us			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Patient clause=Result
5	die in a quote	to-infinitive	the Sun not said here			in our arid homes; miserably property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in home=Attribute

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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