Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 63

The Traveler asserted that he had, with the hire of the Ass, hired his Shadow also.

Who acts: Traveler, owner · What happens: assert, have, hire · To what, where: hire, Shadow

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 (Traveler, owner), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Traveler	det
2	Traveler	Traveler	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 asserted	nsubj
3	asserted	assert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 had	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asserted	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hire	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 hire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hire	det
10	hire	hire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 Ass	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Ass	det
13	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hire	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 hired	punct
15	hired	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asserted	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 Shadow	nmod:poss
17	Shadow	Shadow	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 hired	obj
18	also	also	ADV	_	15 hired	advmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asserted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	assert	past	the Traveler		vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	have	past	owner	the hire of the Ass	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hire=Patient
3	hire	past	the Traveler not said here	owner's Shadow	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shadow=Theme

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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