Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 100
These feet which would have saved me I despised, and I gloried in these antlers which have proved my destruction.”
Who acts: feet, I, my · What happens: save, despise, glory, prove, destroy · To what, where: feet, antlers
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet, I, 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 feet | det |
| 2 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 despised | nsubj |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 saved | aux |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 saved | aux |
| 6 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 feet | acl:relcl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 saved | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 despised | nsubj |
| 9 | despised | despise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gloried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gloried | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 gloried | nsubj |
| 13 | gloried | glory | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 despised | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 antlers | case |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 antlers | det |
| 16 | antlers | antler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gloried | obl |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 proved | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 proved | aux |
| 19 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 antlers | acl:relcl |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 destruction | nmod:poss |
| 21 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 proved | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 despised | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 despised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save | would · perfect · passive | this feet | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary i=Theme | |||||
| 2 | despise | past | this feet | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | glory | past | I | this antlers | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | prove | present · perfect · passive | this antlers | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme destruction=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | destroy | 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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