Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 69

A GOATHERD, driving his flock from their pasture at eventide, found some Wild Goats mingled among them, and shut them up together with his own for the night.

Who acts: GOATHERD, Wild Goats · What happens: drive, find, mingle, shut up · To what, where: flock, pasture, Goatherd · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (GOATHERD, Wild Goats), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 GOATHERD	det
2	GOATHERD	goatherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 driving	punct
4	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 GOATHERD	acl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 flock	nmod:poss
6	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 driving	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 pasture	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pasture	nmod:poss
9	pasture	pasture	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 driving	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 eventide	case
11	eventide	eventide	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 driving	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 GOATHERD	punct
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 Goats	det
15	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Goats	amod
16	Goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 mingled	nsubj
17	mingled	mingle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 found	ccomp
18	among	among	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 mingled	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shut	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shut	cc
22	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 found	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 shut	obj
24	up	up	ADP	_	22 shut	compound:prt
25	together	together	ADV	_	22 shut	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 own	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 own	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 shut	obl
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 night	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 night	det
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shut	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	gerund	a GOATHERD not said here	Dog's flock	Goatherd's pasture		at eventide	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent flock=Theme from pasture=Destination at eventide=Initial_Location
2	find	past	a GOATHERD					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	mingle	past	some Wild Goats				among Goatherd	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	shut up	infinitive	a GOATHERD not said here	Goatherd		night	with Dog's own; together property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with own=Instrument

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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