Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 52

Approaching them, he said, “What a clamor you would raise if I were to do as you are doing!”

Who acts: Lion, clamor, you · What happens: approach, say, raise, do · To what, where: Shepherds · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Lion, clamor, 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	Approaching	approach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 said	advcl
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Approaching	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Approaching	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 raise	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 raise	punct
8	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 raise	obj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 clamor	det
10	clamor	clamor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 raise	nsubj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 raise	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 raise	aux
13	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 do	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 do	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
17	to	to	PART	_	18 do	mark
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 raise	advcl
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 doing	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 doing	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 doing	aux
22	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 do	advcl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 raise	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 raise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	approach	gerund	Lion not said here	Shepherds = shepherd	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	say speech: express	past	Lion		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	raise in a quote	would	a clamor		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
4	do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	Lion		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	do in a quote	present · progressive	you		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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