Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 62

The Hart, at the point of death, groaned: “I am rightly served, for I should not have maltreated the Vine that saved me.”

Who acts: Hart, Thief, Vine · What happens: groan, serve, not maltreat, save, point · To what, where: Thief, Vine, death

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 (Hart, Thief, Vine), 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 Hart	det
2	Hart	Hart	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 groaned	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 point	punct
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 point	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 point	det
6	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hart	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 death	case
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 point	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hart	punct
10	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 served	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 served	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 served	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 served	aux:pass
15	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	16 served	advmod
16	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 groaned	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 maltreated	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 maltreated	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 maltreated	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 maltreated	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 maltreated	advmod
22	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 maltreated	aux
23	maltreated	maltreat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 served	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Vine	det
25	Vine	vine	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 maltreated	obj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 saved	nsubj
27	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 Vine	acl:relcl
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 saved	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 groaned	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 groaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	groan	past	the Hart			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	serve in a quote	present · passive		the Thief = thief	rightly property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
3	not maltreat in a quote	should · perfect	the Thief = thief	the Vine		tree rules
4	save in a quote	past	the Vine	the Thief = thief		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	point			death		nom point «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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