Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 80

The Walnut-Tree piteously exclaimed, “O wretched me! that those whom I cheer with my fruit should repay me with these painful requitals!”

Who acts: Walnut Tree, those · What happens: exclaim, wretch, cheer, repay · To what, where: Walnut Tree · 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 (Walnut Tree, those), 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	4 Tree	det
2	Walnut	Walnut	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Tree	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Walnut	punct
4	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 exclaimed	nsubj
5	piteously	piteously	ADV	_	6 exclaimed	advmod
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wretched	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 wretched	punct
9	O	o	INTJ	_	10 wretched	discourse
10	wretched	wretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 exclaimed	conj
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 wretched	obj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 wretched	punct
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 repay	mark
14	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 repay	nsubj
15	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 cheer	obj
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 cheer	nsubj
17	cheer	cheer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 those	acl:relcl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 fruit	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 fruit	nmod:poss
20	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cheer	obl
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 repay	aux
22	repay	repay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wretched	advcl
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 repay	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 requitals	case
25	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 requitals	det
26	painful	painful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 requitals	amod
27	requitals	requital	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 repay	obl
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 exclaimed	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	the Walnut Tree			piteously property	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	wretch in a quote	past	the Walnut Tree not said here	the Walnut Tree = tree			tree rules
3	cheer in a quote	present	the Walnut Tree = tree			with my fruit	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus whom=Experiencer
4	repay in a quote	should	those		the Walnut Tree = tree	with this painful requitals	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient with requital=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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