Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 22

A neighbor saw him running and said, “Oh! you fellow there! you say you can foretell the fortunes of others; how is it you did not foresee your own?”

Who acts: neighbor, WIZARD, you · What happens: see, run, say, fellow, foretell, be · To what, where: WIZARD, fortunes, own · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbor, WIZARD, you), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 neighbor	det
2	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 saw	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fellow	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 fellow	punct
10	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	13 fellow	discourse
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 Oh	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 fellow	nsubj
13	fellow	fellow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 fellow	advmod
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 say	nsubj
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fellow	conj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 foretell	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 foretell	aux
20	foretell	foretell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 say	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fortunes	det
22	fortunes	fortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 foretell	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 others	case
24	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fortunes	nmod
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 foresee	punct
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 foresee	advmod
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 how	cop
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 how	nsubj
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 foresee	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 foresee	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 foresee	advmod
32	foresee	foresee	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	parataxis
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 own	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 foresee	obj
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	32 foresee	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 foresee	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	a neighbor	WIZARD			tree rules
2	run	gerund	WIZARD not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: ask	past	a neighbor not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	fellow in a quote	present	you		there		tree rules
5	say speech: assert in a quote	present	you				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	foretell in a quote	can	you	the fortunes of others			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme
7	is in a quote	present	neighbor			how property	tree rules
8	not foresee in a quote	past · do-support	you	your own			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Theme

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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