Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 110

Mercury soon appeared and said to him, “O thou most base fellow? how can I believe thee, who hast disowned and wronged thy former patron?”

Who acts: Mercury, thou, base fellow · What happens: appear, say, fellow, believe, disown, wrong · To what, where: Mercury, thee, former patron · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mercury, thou, base fellow), 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	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 appeared	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 appeared	advmod
3	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 appeared	conj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fellow	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 fellow	punct
10	O	o	INTJ	_	14 fellow	discourse
11	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 fellow	nsubj
12	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	14 fellow	advmod
13	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fellow	compound
14	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 fellow	punct
16	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 believe	advmod
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 believe	aux
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 believe	nsubj
19	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fellow	acl:relcl
20	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 believe	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 disowned	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 disowned	nsubj
23	hast	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 disowned	aux
24	disowned	disown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 fellow	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wronged	cc
26	wronged	wrong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 disowned	conj
27	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	29 patron	nmod:poss
28	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 patron	amod
29	patron	patron	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wronged	obj
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	24 disowned	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 fellow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	appear	past	Mercury			soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: ask	past	Mercury not said here		Mercury		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
3	fellow in a quote		thou				tree rules
4	believe in a quote	can	Mercury	thee			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus
5	disown in a quote	present · perfect	base fellow				tree rules
6	wrong in a quote	participle	base fellow not said here	thy former patron			tree rules

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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