Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 29

When he failed to heal their disputes by his exhortations, he determined to give them a practical illustration of the evils of disunion; and for this purpose he one day told them to bring him a bundle of sticks.

Who acts: Grasshopper, Father · What happens: fail, not heal, determine, give, tell, bring · To what, where: disputes, practical illustration, Father, bundle, Grasshopper, evils · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grasshopper, Father), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 failed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 failed	nsubj
3	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 determined	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 heal	mark
5	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 failed	xcomp
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 disputes	nmod:poss
7	disputes	dispute	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heal	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 exhortations	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 exhortations	nmod:poss
10	exhortations	exhortation	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heal	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 failed	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 determined	nsubj
13	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 give	mark
15	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 determined	xcomp
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 give	iobj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 illustration	det
18	practical	practical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 illustration	amod
19	illustration	illustration	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 give	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 evils	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 evils	det
22	evils	evil	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 illustration	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 disunion	case
24	disunion	disunion	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 evils	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 told	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 told	cc
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 purpose	case
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 purpose	det
29	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 told	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 told	nsubj
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 day	nummod
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 he	obl:unmarked
33	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 determined	conj
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 told	iobj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 bring	mark
36	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 told	xcomp
37	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 bring	obj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 bundle	det
39	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bring	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 sticks	case
41	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 bundle	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	fail	past	Grasshopper				vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	not heal	to-infinitive	Grasshopper not said here	Father's disputes		by Grasshopper's exhortations	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dispute=Patient
3	determine	past	Grasshopper				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	give	to-infinitive	Grasshopper not said here	a practical illustration of the evils of disunion	Father		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient illustration=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	past	Grasshopper		Father	for this purpose	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
6	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	Grasshopper not said here	a bundle of sticks	Grasshopper		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination bundle=Theme
7	dispute		Father				nom dispute «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
8	exhort		Grasshopper				nom exhortation «communication transitive»: poss=agent
9	illustrate			the evils of disunion			nom illustration «communication transitive»: of=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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