Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 108
But the Cock expostulated in piteous tones from his perch: “If you kill me, who will announce to you the appearance of the dawn?
Who acts: Cock, you · What happens: expostulate, kill, announce · To what, where: piteous tones, covey, appearance, you
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cock, you), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 expostulated | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Cock | det |
| 3 | Cock | Cock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 expostulated | nsubj |
| 4 | expostulated | expostulate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tones | case |
| 6 | piteous | piteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tones | amod |
| 7 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 expostulated | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 perch | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 perch | nmod:poss |
| 10 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expostulated | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 announce | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 announce | punct |
| 13 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 kill | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | nsubj |
| 15 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 announce | advcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 kill | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kill | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 announce | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 announce | aux |
| 20 | announce | announce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 expostulated | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 announce | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 appearance | det |
| 24 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 announce | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 dawn | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 dawn | det |
| 27 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 appearance | nmod |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 expostulated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expostulate | past | the Cock | piteous tones | from Cock's perch | tree rules | |||
| 2 | kill a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | the covey = covey | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | announce speech: other in a quote | future | the appearance of the dawn | you | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent appearance=Theme to you=Recipient |
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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