Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 115

AN ANT went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of drowning.

Who acts: AN ANT, rush, river · What happens: go, quench, carry away, be, thirst, rush · To what, where: bank, thirst, point, stream

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 (AN ANT, rush, river), 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	AN	an	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ANT	amod
2	ANT	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 bank	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bank	det
6	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bank	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 quench	mark
11	quench	quench	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	advcl
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 thirst	nmod:poss
13	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 quench	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 carried	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 carried	cc
16	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 carried	aux:pass
17	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 went	parataxis
18	away	away	ADV	_	17 carried	advmod
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 rush	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rush	det
21	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 carried	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 stream	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 stream	det
24	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rush	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 point	punct
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 point	cop
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 point	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 point	det
29	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 drowning	case
31	drowning	drowning	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 point	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	AN ANT		the bank of a river		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bank=Initial_Location
2	quench	to-infinitive	AN ANT not said here	river's thirst			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer
3	carry away	gerund · passive	the rush of the stream			away property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is	past			the point	of drowning	tree rules
5	thirst		river				nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent
6	rush			the stream			nom rush «act transitive»: of=patient

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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