Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 19

The Shepherds discovered him, and some threw sticks at him and pelted him with stones, while others, moved with compassion towards one about to die even though no one should hurt him, threw in some food to prolong his life.

Who acts: Shepherds, some, others, one · What happens: discover, throw, pelt, move, die, hurt · To what, where: mischance, sticks, food, life

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 (Shepherds, some, others, one), 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 Shepherds	det
2	Shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 discovered	nsubj
3	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 discovered	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 threw	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 threw	cc
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 threw	nsubj
8	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 discovered	parataxis
9	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 threw	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 threw	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pelted	cc
13	pelted	pelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 discovered	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pelted	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 stones	case
16	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 pelted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 moved	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 moved	mark
19	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 moved	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 moved	punct
21	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 pelted	parataxis
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 compassion	case
23	compassion	compassion	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 moved	obl
24	towards	towards	ADP	_	25 one	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 moved	obl
26	about	about	ADV	_	28 die	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 die	mark
28	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 moved	conj
29	even	even	ADV	_	34 hurt	advmod
30	though	though	SCONJ	_	34 hurt	mark
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 one	det
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hurt	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 hurt	aux
34	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 die	advcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 hurt	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 threw	punct
37	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 discovered	parataxis
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 food	case
39	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	40 food	det
40	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 threw	obl
41	to	to	PART	_	42 prolong	mark
42	prolong	prolong	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 threw	advcl
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 life	nmod:poss
44	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 prolong	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	discover	past	the Shepherds	mischance				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	throw	past	some	sticks			at Shepherd	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stick=Theme at he=Destination
3	pelt	past	the Shepherds not said here		mischance		with stones	vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with stone=Theme
4	move	participle	others				with compassion; towards one	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards one=Trajectory
5	die	to-infinitive	others not said here				about property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	hurt	should	no one	mischance				vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient
7	throw	past				some food		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in food=Destination
8	prolong	to-infinitive		Shepherd's life				vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent life=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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