Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 76

He argued that it enticed men with the calmness of its looks, but when it had induced them to plow its waters, it grew rough and destroyed them.

Who acts: man, Sea · What happens: argue, entice, induce, plow, grow, destroy · To what, where: men, Sea, waters, reproaches · 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 (man, Sea), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 argued	nsubj
2	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 enticed	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 enticed	nsubj
5	enticed	entice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 argued	ccomp
6	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 enticed	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 calmness	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 calmness	det
9	calmness	calmness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 enticed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 looks	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 looks	nmod:poss
12	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 calmness	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 induced	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 induced	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 induced	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 induced	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 induced	aux
18	induced	induce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 argued	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 induced	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 plow	mark
21	plow	plow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 induced	advcl
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 waters	nmod:poss
23	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 plow	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 grew	punct
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 grew	nsubj
26	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 argued	parataxis
27	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 grew	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 destroyed	cc
29	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 grew	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 destroyed	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 argued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	argue speech: disagree	past	man			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	entice	past	Sea	men	with the calmness of Sea's looks	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus man=Experiencer
3	induce	past · perfect · passive		Sea		tree rules
4	plow	to-infinitive		Sea's waters		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent water=Initial_Location
5	grow	past	Sea		rough property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	destroy	past	Sea not said here	reproaches = reproach		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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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