Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 97

Just as he was on the point of being eaten, the Crab said, “I well deserve my fate, for what business had I on the land, when by my nature and habits I am only adapted for the sea?”

Who acts: Fox, point, business, my · What happens: be, eat, say, deserve, have, adapt · To what, where: fate, point, land · 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 (Fox, point, business, my), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	7 point	advmod
2	as	as	ADP	_	7 point	case
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 point	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 point	cop
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 point	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 point	det
7	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj:outer
8	of	of	SCONJ	_	10 eaten	mark
9	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 eaten	aux:pass
10	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 said	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eaten	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Crab	det
13	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 deserve	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 deserve	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 deserve	nsubj
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 deserve	advmod
19	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 said	ccomp
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 fate	nmod:poss
21	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 deserve	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 what	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 what	case
24	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 had	obj
25	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 deserve	advcl
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 had	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 land	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 land	det
30	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 when	punct
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 deserve	parataxis
33	by	by	ADP	_	35 nature	case
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 nature	nmod:poss
35	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 when	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 habits	cc
37	habits	habit	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 nature	conj
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 adapted	nsubj
39	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 adapted	aux:pass
40	only	only	ADV	_	41 adapted	advmod
41	adapted	adapt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 nature	acl:relcl
42	for	for	ADP	_	44 sea	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 sea	det
44	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 adapted	obl
45	?	?	PUNCT	_	41 adapted	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Fox			as the point	tree rules
2	eat	gerund · passive	the point not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»
3	say speech: ask	past	the point				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	deserve in a quote	present	the point = point	my fate		well property	tree rules
5	have in a quote	past	business	the point = point	the land		tree rules
6	adapt in a quote	present · passive		the point = point		for the sea	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	fate in a quote		my				nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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