Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 23

Not knowing what else to do in so wild a region, the Muleteer placed upon the Mule the load carried by the Ass in addition to his own, and at the top of all placed the hide of the Ass, after he had skinned him.

Who acts: Muleteer · What happens: not know, do, place, carry, skin · To what, where: wild region, load, addition, hide, top, Mule

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), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 knowing	advmod
2	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 placed	advcl
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 do	obj
4	else	else	ADV	_	3 what	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knowing	xcomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	11 region	case
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 wild	advmod
9	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 region	amod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 region	det
11	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 knowing	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Muleteer	det
14	Muleteer	Muleteer	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 placed	nsubj
15	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 Mule	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Mule	det
18	Mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 placed	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 load	det
20	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Mule	appos
21	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 load	acl
22	by	by	ADP	_	24 Ass	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Ass	det
24	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carried	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 addition	case
26	addition	addition	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carried	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 own	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 own	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 addition	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 placed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 placed	cc
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 top	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 top	det
34	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 placed	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 all	case
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 top	nmod
37	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 placed	conj
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 hide	det
39	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 placed	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 Ass	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Ass	det
42	Ass	Ass	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 hide	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 skinned	punct
44	after	after	SCONJ	_	47 skinned	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 skinned	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 skinned	aux
47	skinned	skin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 placed	conj
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 skinned	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	gerund	the Muleteer not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	to-infinitive	the Muleteer not said here		a wild region		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	place	past	the Muleteer			upon the Mule	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent upon mule=Destination
4	carry	participle		the load not said here	addition to MULETEER's own	by the Ass	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in addition=Location
5	place	participle	the Muleteer not said here	the hide of the Ass	the top of all		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hide=Theme at top=Destination
6	skin	past · perfect	MULETEER	Mule			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=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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