Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 140

The Man, laughing, replied, “Now you shall certainly die by mine own hands, for no evil, whether it be small or large, ought to be tolerated.”

Who acts: Man, you, evil · What happens: laugh, reply, die, be, tolerate · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Man, you, evil), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Man	det
2	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 laughing	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Man	punct
4	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct
6	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 laughing	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 die	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 die	punct
9	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 die	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 die	nsubj
11	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 die	aux
12	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	13 die	advmod
13	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 replied	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 mine	case
15	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 die	obl
16	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hands	amod
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 mine	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 evil	punct
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 evil	case
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 evil	det
21	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 die	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 small	punct
23	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	26 small	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 small	nsubj
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 small	cop
26	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 evil	parataxis
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 large	cc
28	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 small	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 tolerated	punct
30	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 tolerated	aux
31	to	to	PART	_	33 tolerated	mark
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 tolerated	aux:pass
33	tolerated	tolerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 small	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 laughing	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 laughing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	gerund	the Man			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	reply speech: assert	participle				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	die in a quote	shall	you	now	by mine; certainly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is in a quote	infinitive	evil		small property	tree rules
5	be in a quote		evil not said here			tree rules
6	tolerate in a quote	ought · passive	evil not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»

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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