Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 116

The Sea, perceiving that they intended to throw the blame on him, said, “Pray cease to flow into me, and then you will not be made briny.”

Who acts: Sea, Rivers · What happens: perceive, intend, throw, say, pray, flow · To what, where: blame, cease, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Sea, Rivers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Sea	det
2	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 perceiving	punct
4	perceiving	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Sea	acl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 intended	mark
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 intended	nsubj
7	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 perceiving	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 throw	mark
9	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 intended	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 blame	det
11	blame	blame	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 throw	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 throw	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sea	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Pray	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 Pray	punct
18	Pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
19	cease	cease	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Pray	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 flow	mark
21	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 Pray	xcomp
22	into	into	ADP	_	23 me	case
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 flow	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 made	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 made	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 made	advmod
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 made	nsubj:pass
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 made	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 made	advmod
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 made	aux:pass
31	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 said	ccomp
32	briny	briny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 made	xcomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	gerund	the Sea not said here				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	intend	past	Rivers = river				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive	Rivers = river not said here	the blame		on Ass	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent blame=Theme on he=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past	the Sea				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	pray in a quote	infinitive		cease			tree rules
6	flow in a quote	to-infinitive				into the Sea = sea	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not make in a quote	future · passive		you	then	briny property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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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