Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 75
If no cruel hand pluck me from my stem, yet I must perish by an early doom.
Who acts: cruel hand, I, my · What happens: pluck, perish, stem · To what, where: me, stem
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 (cruel hand, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 pluck | mark |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 hand | det |
| 3 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hand | amod |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pluck | nsubj |
| 5 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 perish | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 pluck | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 stem | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 stem | nmod:poss |
| 9 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pluck | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 perish | punct |
| 11 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 14 perish | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 perish | nsubj |
| 13 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 perish | aux |
| 14 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 doom | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 doom | det |
| 17 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 doom | amod |
| 18 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 perish | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 perish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pluck a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | no cruel hand | me | my stem | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from stem=Source | |||
| 2 | perish | must | I | by a early doom | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | stem | my | nom stem «communication 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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