Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 45

A LION, worn out with years and powerless from disease, lay on the ground at the point of death.

What happens: wear out, lay, point · To what, where: LION, ground, death

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: 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 LION	det
2	LION	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worn	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 LION	punct
4	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 worn	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 years	case
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 worn	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 powerless	cc
9	powerless	powerless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 years	conj
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 disease	case
11	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 powerless	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lay	punct
13	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 worn	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 ground	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ground	det
16	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 point	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 point	det
19	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 death	case
21	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 point	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 worn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear out	participle · passive	a LION		year		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source
2	lay	present		the ground		at the point of death	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on ground=Destination
3	point		death				nom point «cognition 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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