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title: A KITE, sick unto death, said to his mother: “O Mother! do not mourn… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A KITE, sick unto death, said to his mother: “O Mother! do not mourn, but at once invoke the gods that my life may be prolonged.” Who acts: KITE. 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.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 76

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A KITE, sick unto death, said to his mother: “O Mother! do not mourn, but at once invoke the gods that my life may be prolonged.”

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**Who acts:** KITE · **What happens:** say, not mourn, invoke, prolong · **To what, where:** mother, gods, life · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (KITE), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg21:7:76
# text = A KITE, sick unto death, said to his mother: “O Mother! do not mourn, but at once invoke the gods that my life may be prolonged.”
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	KITE	kite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	unto	unto	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	15	case	_	_
15	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	mourn	mourn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	24	obl	_	_
24	invoke	invoke	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	obj	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	aux:pass	_	_
32	prolonged	prolong	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | a KITE |  | Kite's mother |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **not** **mourn** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | of Mother | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **invoke** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the gods |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **prolong** *in a quote* | may · passive |  | my life |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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