Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 27

THE OAKS presented a complaint to Jupiter, saying, “We bear for no purpose the burden of life, as of all the trees that grow we are the most continually in peril of the axe.”

Who acts: OAKS, We, trees · What happens: present, say, bear, grow, be, burden · To what, where: complaint, Jupiter, burden, we, peril, life · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (OAKS, We, trees), 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	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 OAKS	det
2	OAKS	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 presented	nsubj
3	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 complaint	det
5	complaint	complaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 presented	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 Jupiter	case
7	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 presented	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saying	punct
9	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 presented	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bear	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 bear	punct
12	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 bear	nsubj
13	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 saying	ccomp
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 purpose	case
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 purpose	det
16	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bear	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 burden	det
18	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bear	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 life	case
20	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 burden	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 trees	punct
22	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	26 trees	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	22 as	fixed
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 trees	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 trees	det
26	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 peril	nsubj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 grow	nsubj
28	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 trees	acl:relcl
29	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 grow	obj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 peril	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 peril	det
32	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	33 continually	advmod
33	continually	continually	ADV	_	35 peril	advmod
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 peril	case
35	peril	peril	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saying	ccomp
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 axe	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 axe	det
38	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 peril	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	35 peril	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	35 peril	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	present	past	the OAKS	a complaint	Jupiter			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent complaint=Theme to jupiter=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the OAKS not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bear in a quote	present	We	the burden of life			for no purpose	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer burden=Stimulus for purpose=Attribute
4	grow in a quote	present	all trees	we				vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location we=Theme
5	is in a quote	present	all trees			the peril	of the axe; continually property	tree rules
6	burden in a quote			life				nom burden «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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