Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 74

On his replying that he supposed it would be the prow, the Man said, “Death would not be grievous to me, if I could only see my Enemy die before me.”

Who acts: pilot, replying, Man, Death · What happens: reply, suppose, be, say, not be, see · To what, where: vessel, prow, Man, Enemy die · 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 (pilot, replying, Man, Death), 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	On	on	ADP	_	11 prow	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 prow	nmod:poss
3	replying	reply	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 prow	csubj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 supposed	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 supposed	nsubj
6	supposed	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 replying	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 supposed	obj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 prow	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 prow	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 prow	det
11	prow	prow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 prow	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Man	det
14	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 grievous	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 grievous	punct
18	Death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 grievous	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 grievous	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 grievous	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 grievous	cop
22	grievous	grievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 grievous	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
26	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 see	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 see	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
29	only	only	ADV	_	30 see	advmod
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 die	nmod:poss
32	Enemy	enemy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 die	amod
33	die	die	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 see	obj
34	before	before	ADP	_	35 me	case
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 see	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	gerund							vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	suppose	past	pilot	vessel					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute
3	is	would	replying			pilot's prow			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the Man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not is in a quote	would	Death		the Man = man			grievous property	tree rules
6	see a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	could	the Man = man	my Enemy die			before the Man = man		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer die=Stimulus

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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