--- title: The Sea, perceiving that they intended to throw the blame on him, sa… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: The Sea, perceiving that they intended to throw the blame on him, said, “Pray cease to flow into me, and then you will not be made briny.” Who acts: Sea, Rivers. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/7/116/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Three hundred Aesop’s fables](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/) / [Aesop’s Fables, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/7/) / 116 # Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 116 The Sea, perceiving that they intended to throw the blame on him, said, “Pray cease to flow into me, and then you will not be made briny.” **Who acts:** Sea, Rivers · **What happens:** perceive, intend, throw, say, pray, flow · **To what, where:** blame, cease, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sea, Rivers), 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:pg21:7:116 # text = The Sea, perceiving that they intended to throw the blame on him, said, “Pray cease to flow into me, and then you will not be made briny.” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 perceiving perceive VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 intended intend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 throw throw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 blame blame NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 “ " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Pray pray VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 19 cease cease NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 flow flow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 26 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 30 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 ccomp _ _ 32 briny briny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ” " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **perceive** | gerund | the Sea *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **intend** | past | Rivers *= river* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **throw** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Rivers *= river* *not said here* | the blame | | | | on Ass | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent blame=Theme on he=Destination | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Sea | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **pray** *in a quote* | infinitive | | cease | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **flow** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | into the Sea *= sea* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **make** *in a quote* | future · passive | | you | | | then | briny *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | 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 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/7/115/) - next →: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/7/117/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/7/)