Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 71

He gave his own goats just sufficient food to keep them alive, but fed the strangers more abundantly in the hope of enticing them to stay with him and of making them his own.

Who acts: Dog, hope · What happens: give, keep, feed, entice, stay, make · To what, where: sufficient food, own goats, Goats, strangers, hope

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 (Dog, hope), 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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	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	5 goats	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 goats	amod
5	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gave	obj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 sufficient	advmod
7	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 food	amod
8	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 keep	mark
10	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gave	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 keep	obj
12	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 keep	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fed	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 fed	cc
15	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 strangers	det
17	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fed	obj
18	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 abundantly	advmod
19	abundantly	abundantly	ADV	_	15 fed	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 hope	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hope	det
22	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fed	obl
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	24 enticing	mark
24	enticing	entice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 hope	acl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 enticing	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 stay	mark
27	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 enticing	advcl
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stay	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 making	cc
31	of	of	SCONJ	_	32 making	mark
32	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 enticing	conj
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 making	obj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 own	nmod:poss
35	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 making	xcomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	Dog	sufficient food	Dog's own goats			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent goat=Recipient food=Theme
2	keep	to-infinitive	Dog not said here	Goats = goat			alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	feed	past	Dog not said here	the strangers		the hope	abundantly property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stranger=Value in hope=Location
4	entice	gerund	the hope not said here	Goats = goat				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
5	stay	to-infinitive	the hope not said here				with Dog	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location
6	make	gerund	the hope not said here	Goats = goat			own property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

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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