Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 120

He exclaimed with a too late repentance, “Wretched me! this overestimation of myself is the cause of my destruction.”

Who acts: lion, overestimation, my · What happens: exclaim, be, overestimate, destroy · To what, where: cause, myself · 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 (lion, overestimation, my), 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	2 exclaimed	nsubj
2	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	7 repentance	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 repentance	det
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 late	advmod
6	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 repentance	amod
7	repentance	repentance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exclaimed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 Wretched	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 Wretched	punct
10	Wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 exclaimed	parataxis
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 Wretched	nsubj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 overestimation	punct
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 overestimation	det
14	overestimation	overestimation	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cause	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 myself	case
16	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 overestimation	nmod
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 cause	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 cause	det
19	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 exclaimed	parataxis
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 destruction	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 destruction	nmod:poss
22	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cause	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 exclaimed	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	lion		with a late repentance	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	this overestimation of myself	the cause	of my destruction	tree rules
3	overestimate in a quote			myself		nom overestimation «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	destroy in a quote		my			nom destruction «act 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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