--- title: The Hawk, interrupting him, said: “I should indeed have lost my sens… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: The Hawk, interrupting him, said: “I should indeed have lost my senses if I should let go food ready in my hand, for the sake of pursuing birds which are not yet even within sight.” Who acts: Hawk, pursuing birds. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hawk, pursuing birds), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg21:12:60 # text = The Hawk, interrupting him, said: “I should indeed have lost my senses if I should let go food ready in my hand, for the sake of pursuing birds which are not yet even within sight.” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Hawk Hawk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 interrupting interrupt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 9 “ " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 11 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 12 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux _ _ 14 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 senses sens NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 21 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 22 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 23 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 pursuing pursue VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 amod _ _ 33 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 35 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 37 yet yet ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 38 even even ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 39 within within ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **interrupt** | gerund | the Hawk *not said here* | nightingale | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Hawk | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **lose** *in a quote* | should · perfect | the Hawk *= hawk* | my senses | | | | indeed *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sens=Eventuality | | 4 | **let** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | should | the Hawk *= hawk* | | | | | for the sake of pursuing birds | tree rules | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Hawk *= hawk* *not said here* | food | | | | ready *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme | | 6 | **pursue** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | pursuing birds | | | | yet | within sight | tree rules | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/61/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/)