Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 72

He greatly lamented his fate, saying, “Woe is me! that I, who can wage war successfully with the hugest beasts, should perish myself from this spider, the most inconsiderable of insects!”

Who acts: Lion, Woe · What happens: lament, say, be, wage, perish, fate · To what, where: fate, Lion, war, spider · 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 (Lion, Woe), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lamented	nsubj
2	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	3 lamented	advmod
3	lamented	lament	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fate	nmod:poss
5	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lamented	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 saying	punct
7	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lamented	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 me	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 me	punct
10	Woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 me	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 me	cop
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 saying	ccomp
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 me	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 wage	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 wage	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 wage	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 wage	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 wage	aux
19	wage	wage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 saying	advcl
20	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wage	obj
21	successfully	successfully	ADV	_	19 wage	advmod
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 beasts	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 beasts	det
24	hugest	huge	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 beasts	amod
25	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wage	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 perish	punct
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 perish	aux
28	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lamented	conj
29	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 perish	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 spider	case
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 spider	det
32	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 perish	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 inconsiderable	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 inconsiderable	det
35	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	36 inconsiderable	advmod
36	inconsiderable	inconsiderable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lamented	parataxis
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 insects	case
38	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 inconsiderable	obl
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	36 inconsiderable	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 lamented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lament	past	Lion	Lion's fate		greatly property	tree rules
2	say speech: express	gerund	Lion not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	Woe	Lion			tree rules
4	wage in a quote	can	Lion	war		with the hugest beasts; successfully property	tree rules
5	perish in a quote	should	Lion not said here	Lion	this spider		tree rules
6	fate		Lion				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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