Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 111

A Kite saw him and exclaimed: “You richly deserve your fate; for a bird of the air has no business to seek its food from the sea.”

Who acts: Kite, You, business, your · What happens: see, exclaim, deserve, have, seek, fate · To what, where: Fish, fate, business, food, sea · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Kite, You, business, your), 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 Kite	det
2	Kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 exclaimed	cc
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 deserve	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 deserve	punct
9	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 deserve	nsubj
10	richly	richly	ADV	_	11 deserve	advmod
11	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 exclaimed	conj
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 fate	nmod:poss
13	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 deserve	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 has	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 bird	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bird	det
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 air	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 air	det
20	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bird	nmod
21	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	parataxis
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 business	det
23	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 seek	mark
25	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 has	xcomp
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 food	nmod:poss
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seek	obj
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 sea	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sea	det
30	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 seek	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 has	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	a Kite	Fish			tree rules
2	exclaim speech: express	past	a Kite not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	deserve in a quote	present	You	your fate		richly property	tree rules
4	have in a quote	present		no business		for a bird of the air	tree rules
5	seek in a quote	to-infinitive	no business not said here	Kite's food	the sea		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
6	fate in a quote		your				nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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