Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 8

A FATHER, being on the point of death, wished to be sure that his sons would give the same attention to his farm as he himself had given it.

Who acts: FATHER, sons · What happens: be, wish, give · To what, where: point, same attention, farm, monster

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 (FATHER, sons), 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 FATHER	det
2	FATHER	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 point	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 FATHER	punct
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 point	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 point	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 point	det
7	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 death	case
9	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 point	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wished	punct
11	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 point	acl
12	to	to	PART	_	14 sure	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 sure	cop
14	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 wished	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 give	mark
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sons	nmod:poss
17	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 give	nsubj
18	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 give	aux
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 sure	ccomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 attention	det
21	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 attention	amod
22	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 farm	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 farm	nmod:poss
25	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 give	obl
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 given	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 given	nsubj:pass
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	27 he	nmod:unmarked
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 given	aux
30	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 give	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 given	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 point	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	a FATHER			the point	of death	tree rules
2	wish	participle		the point not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is	to-infinitive					sure property	tree rules
4	give	would	monster's sons	the same attention	monster's farm			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent attention=Theme to farm=Recipient
5	give	past · perfect · passive		monster				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient it=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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