Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 63

The weak often revenge themselves on those who use them ill, even though they be more powerful.

Who acts: Eagle · What happens: use, be · To what, where: Eagle

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 (Eagle), 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	4 revenge	det
2	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 revenge	amod
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 revenge	advmod
4	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	4 revenge	nmod:unmarked
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 those	case
7	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 revenge	nmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 use	nsubj
9	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 those	acl:relcl
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 use	obj
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 use	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 powerful	punct
13	even	even	ADV	_	18 powerful	advmod
14	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 powerful	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 powerful	nsubj
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 powerful	cop
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	18 powerful	advmod
18	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 use	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 revenge	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present		Eagle				ill property	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	is	infinitive	Eagle					powerful property	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.

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