Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 59
For the sake of a little pleasant food I have deprived myself of my life.”
Who acts: I · What happens: deprive · To what, where: myself
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 (I), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 sake | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sake | det |
| 3 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deprived | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 food | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 food | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 food | amod |
| 7 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 food | amod |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deprived | obl |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 deprived | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 deprived | aux |
| 11 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 deprived | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 life | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 life | nmod:poss |
| 15 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deprived | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 deprived | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 deprived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deprive | present · perfect | I | myself | for the sake; of a little pleasant food; of my life | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent myself=Source of food=Theme |
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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