Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 105

He sold all his flock, invested it in a cargo of dates, and set sail.

Who acts: straw · What happens: sell, invest · To what, where: flock, cargo

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (straw), 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 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 flock	det:predet
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 flock	nmod:poss
5	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sold	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 invested	punct
7	invested	invest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sold	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 invested	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 cargo	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cargo	det
11	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 invested	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 dates	case
13	dates	date	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cargo	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sail	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 sail	cc
16	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sail	amod
17	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sold	parataxis
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	straw	straw's flock					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme
2	invest	past	straw not said here	flock		a cargo of dates			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

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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