Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 78

The Bear soon left him, for it is said he will not touch a dead body.

Who acts: Bear, One · What happens: leave, say, not touch · To what, where: One, appearance, dead body · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bear, 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 Bear	det
2	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	nsubj
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 left	advmod
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
7	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 said	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	aux:pass
10	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 left	conj
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 touch	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 touch	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 touch	advmod
14	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 body	det
16	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 body	amod
17	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 touch	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	past	the Bear	One	soon property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	say speech: assert	present · passive		appearance		tree rules
3	not touch	future	One	a dead body		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme body=Co-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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