Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 101

He sat down by the wayside, and throwing down his load, besought “Death” to come.

Who acts: man · What happens: sit down, throw down, beseech, come · To what, where: load, Death

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 wayside	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wayside	det
6	wayside	wayside	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 throwing	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 throwing	cc
9	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sat	advcl
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 throwing	compound:prt
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 load	nmod:poss
12	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 throwing	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 besought	punct
14	besought	beseech	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 throwing	conj
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 Death	punct
16	Death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 besought	obj
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 Death	punct
18	to	to	PART	_	19 come	mark
19	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 besought	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	man		by the wayside	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by wayside=Location
2	throw down	gerund	man not said here	man's load		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Theme
3	beseech	participle	man not said here	Death		tree rules
4	come	to-infinitive	man not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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