Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 79

His Dog availed himself of the occasion to invite a stranger Dog, a friend of his, saying, “My master gives a feast, and there is always much food remaining; come and sup with me tonight.”

Who acts: Dog, master · What happens: avail, invite, say, give, remain, come · To what, where: man, stranger Dog, feast · 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 (Dog, master), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 Dog	nmod:poss
2	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 availed	nsubj
3	availed	avail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 availed	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 occasion	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 occasion	det
7	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 availed	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 invite	mark
9	invite	invite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 availed	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 Dog	det
11	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Dog	compound
12	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 invite	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 friend	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 friend	det
15	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Dog	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 his	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 friend	nmod:poss
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saying	punct
19	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 invite	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 gives	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 gives	punct
22	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 master	nmod:poss
23	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gives	nsubj
24	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 saying	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 feast	det
26	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gives	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 is	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 is	cc
29	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 is	expl
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 remaining	aux
31	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	32 much	advmod
32	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 food	amod
33	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 is	nsubj
34	remaining	remain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 availed	advcl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 come	punct
36	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 availed	parataxis
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 sup	cc
38	sup	sup	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 come	conj
39	with	with	ADP	_	40 me	case
40	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 sup	obl
41	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sup	obl:unmarked
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 come	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	36 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	avail	past	man's Dog	man			of the occasion	tree rules
2	invite	to-infinitive	man's Dog not said here		a stranger Dog			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient
3	say speech: assert	gerund	man's Dog not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	give in a quote	present	My master	a feast				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme
5	remain in a quote	present · progressive	man's Dog not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come in a quote	infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	sup in a quote	infinitive				tonight	with man's Dog = dog	vn dine-39.5 «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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