Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 58
The Thrush, being at the point of death, exclaimed, “O foolish creature that I am!
Who acts: Thrush · What happens: be, exclaim · To what, where: point
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 (Thrush), 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 Thrush | det |
| 2 | Thrush | Thrush | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 point | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Thrush | punct |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 point | cop |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 point | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 point | det |
| 7 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 death | case |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 point | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 exclaimed | punct |
| 11 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 point | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 creature | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 creature | punct |
| 14 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 16 creature | case |
| 15 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 creature | amod |
| 16 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 exclaimed | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 am | obj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 am | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 creature | acl:relcl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 point | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | the Thrush | the point | of death | tree rules | |||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | participle | the Thrush not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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