Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 42

The Oak said with a sigh, “I do not care about the blows of the axe aimed at my roots, but I do grieve at being torn in pieces by these wedges made from my own branches.”

Who acts: Oak, wedges, axe · What happens: say, not care, aim, grieve, tear, make · To what, where: axe, roots, pieces, wedges, own branches · 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 (Oak, wedges, axe), 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 Oak	det
2	Oak	Oak	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 sigh	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sigh	det
6	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 care	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 care	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 care	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 care	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 care	advmod
12	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 blows	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 blows	det
15	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 care	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 axe	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 axe	det
18	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 blows	nmod
19	aimed	aim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 axe	acl
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 roots	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 roots	nmod:poss
22	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 aimed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 grieve	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 grieve	cc
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 grieve	nsubj
26	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 grieve	aux
27	grieve	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
28	at	at	SCONJ	_	30 torn	mark
29	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 torn	aux:pass
30	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 grieve	xcomp
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 pieces	case
32	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 torn	obl
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 wedges	case
34	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	35 wedges	det
35	wedges	wedge	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 torn	obl
36	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 wedges	acl
37	from	from	ADP	_	40 branches	case
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 branches	nmod:poss
39	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 branches	amod
40	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 made	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 grieve	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	27 grieve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Oak			with a sigh	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not care in a quote	present · do-support	the Oak = oak			about the blows of the axe	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus what S»: agent=Experiencer about blow=Stimulus
3	aim in a quote	participle		the axe not said here	my roots		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	grieve in a quote	present · do-support	the Oak = oak				tree rules
5	tear in a quote	gerund · passive	this wedges		pieces		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in piece=Trajectory
6	make in a quote	participle		this wedges not said here	my own branches		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from branch=Material
7	blow in a quote		the axe				nom blow «act intransitive»: of=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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