Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 25

I return as an enemy only to those who injured me.”

Who acts: I · What happens: return, injure · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 return	nsubj
2	return	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	5 enemy	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 enemy	det
5	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 return	obl
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 those	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 those	case
8	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 return	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 injured	nsubj
10	injured	injure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 those	acl:relcl
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 injured	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 return	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 return	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	present	I					as a enemy; to those result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to that=Result
2	injure	past		me					tree rules

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/16/25/