Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 81

He then said to himself, “I shall no longer distress myself at being struck at by these Gamecocks, when I see that they cannot even refrain from quarreling with each other.”

Who acts: pilot, Gamecocks · What happens: say, distress, strike, see, not refrain, quarrel · To what, where: pilot · 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, Gamecocks), 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 said	nsubj
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 said	advmod
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 distress	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 distress	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 distress	nsubj
9	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 distress	aux
10	no	no	ADV	_	11 longer	advmod
11	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 distress	advmod
12	distress	distress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
13	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 distress	obj
14	at	at	SCONJ	_	16 struck	mark
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 struck	aux:pass
16	struck	strike	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 distress	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	16 struck	obl
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 Gamecocks	case
19	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 Gamecocks	det
20	Gamecocks	gamecock	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 struck	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 see	punct
22	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 see	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 see	nsubj
24	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 Gamecocks	acl:relcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 refrain	mark
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 refrain	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 refrain	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 refrain	advmod
29	even	even	ADV	_	30 refrain	advmod
30	refrain	refrain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 see	ccomp
31	from	from	SCONJ	_	32 quarreling	mark
32	quarreling	quarrel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 refrain	advcl
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 each	case
34	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	32 quarreling	obl
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 each	fixed
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	pilot		pilot	then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
2	distress in a quote	shall	pilot	pilot			long property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus myself=Experiencer
3	strike in a quote	gerund · passive	this Gamecocks					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see in a quote	present	pilot					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	not refrain in a quote	can	Gamecocks = gamecock					vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	quarrel in a quote	gerund	Gamecocks = gamecock not said here				with each	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with each=Co-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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