Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 69

A FLY bit the bare head of a Bald Man who, endeavoring to destroy it, gave himself a heavy slap.

Who acts: FLY, Bald Man · What happens: bite, endeavor, destroy, give · To what, where: bare head, Fly, heavy slap, man

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 (FLY, Bald Man), 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	2 FLY	det
2	FLY	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	nsubj
3	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 head	det
5	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 head	amod
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 Man	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 Man	det
9	Bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Man	amod
10	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 head	nmod
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 endeavoring	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 endeavoring	punct
13	endeavoring	endeavor	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 Man	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 destroy	mark
15	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 endeavoring	xcomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 destroy	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gave	punct
18	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bit	conj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 gave	iobj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 slap	det
21	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 slap	amod
22	slap	slap	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gave	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	bite	past	a FLY	the bare head of a Bald Man		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	endeavor	gerund	a Bald Man			tree rules
3	destroy	to-infinitive	a Bald Man not said here	Fly		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	give	past	a FLY not said here	a heavy slap	man	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient slap=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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