Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 10
Pray spare my life, and put me back into the sea.
Who acts: you · What happens: pray, spare, put back · To what, where: life, me, sea
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Pray | xcomp |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 life | nmod:poss |
| 4 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spare | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 put | cc |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Pray | conj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 put | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 put | advmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 sea | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sea | det |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | imperative | you not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | spare | infinitive | you not said here | my life | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset | ||||
| 3 | put back | infinitive | you not said here | me | the sea | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal |
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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