Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 21

He entreated his companion to relieve him of a small portion, that he might carry home the rest; but the Mule paid no attention to the request.

Who acts: MULETEER, Mule · What happens: entreat, relieve, carry, pay · To what, where: companion, MULETEER, rest, attention

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MULETEER, Mule), 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 entreated	nsubj
2	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 companion	nmod:poss
4	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 entreated	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 relieve	mark
6	relieve	relieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 entreated	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 relieve	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 portion	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 portion	det
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 portion	amod
11	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 relieve	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 carry	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 carry	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 carry	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 carry	aux
16	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 relieve	conj
17	home	home	ADV	_	16 carry	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rest	det
19	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 carry	obj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 paid	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 paid	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Mule	det
23	Mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 paid	nsubj
24	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 entreated	conj
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 attention	det
26	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 paid	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 request	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 request	det
29	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 paid	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 entreated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	entreat	past	MULETEER	MULETEER's companion		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent companion=Recipient clause=Topic
2	relieve	to-infinitive	MULETEER not said here	MULETEER	of a small portion	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer he=Source of portion=Theme
3	carry	might	MULETEER	the rest	home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme
4	pay	past	the Mule	no attention	to the request	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset

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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