Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 85

His companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health, and each one helped himself to a share of the food which had been placed for his use; so that he died, not from his sickness, but from the failure of the means of living.

Who acts: companions, one, companion, the · What happens: come, inquire, help, place, die, mean · To what, where: great numbers, companion, food, sickness

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 (companions, one, companion, the), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 companions	nmod:poss
2	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 numbers	case
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 numbers	amod
6	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 came	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 inquire	mark
8	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	advcl
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 health	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 health	nmod:poss
11	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 inquire	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 helped	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 helped	cc
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 helped	nsubj
16	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 helped	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 share	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 share	det
20	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 helped	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 food	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 food	det
23	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 share	nmod
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 placed	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 placed	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 placed	aux:pass
27	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 food	acl:relcl
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 use	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 use	nmod:poss
30	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 placed	obl
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 died	punct
32	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	35 died	mark
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 so	fixed
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 died	nsubj
35	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sickness	punct
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 sickness	advmod
38	from	from	ADP	_	40 sickness	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 sickness	nmod:poss
40	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 died	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 failure	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	45 failure	cc
43	from	from	ADP	_	45 failure	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 failure	det
45	failure	failure	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	parataxis
46	of	of	SCONJ	_	48 means	mark
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 means	nsubj
48	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 failure	advcl
49	of	of	ADP	_	50 living	case
50	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 means	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	MAN's companions		great numbers			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=Location
2	inquire speech: other	to-infinitive	MAN's companions not said here			after companion's health		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	help	past	each one	companion			to a share of the food	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary
4	place	past · perfect · passive		the food			for companion's use	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme
5	die	past	companion		companion's sickness			vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from sickness=Causer
6	mean	present	the				of living	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
7	share			the food				nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient
8	use		companion					nom use «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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