Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 76

A KITE, sick unto death, said to his mother: “O Mother! do not mourn, but at once invoke the gods that my life may be prolonged.”

Who acts: KITE · What happens: say, not mourn, invoke, prolong · To what, where: mother, gods, life · 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 (KITE), 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 KITE	det
2	KITE	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sick	punct
4	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 KITE	amod
5	unto	unto	ADP	_	6 death	case
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sick	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 KITE	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 mother	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 mourn	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 mourn	punct
14	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	15 Mother	case
15	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mourn	obl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 Mother	punct
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 mourn	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 mourn	advmod
19	mourn	mourn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 invoke	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 invoke	cc
22	at	at	ADP	_	23 once	case
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 invoke	obl
24	invoke	invoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 mourn	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 gods	det
26	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 invoke	obj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 prolonged	obj
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 life	nmod:poss
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 prolonged	nsubj:pass
30	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 prolonged	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 prolonged	aux:pass
32	prolonged	prolong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 gods	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 mourn	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	19 mourn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	a KITE		Kite's mother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not mourn in a quote	infinitive · do-support				of Mother	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	invoke in a quote	infinitive		the gods			tree rules
4	prolong in a quote	may · passive		my life			tree rules

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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