Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 77

The Sea, assuming the form of a woman, replied to him: “Blame not me, my good sir, but the winds, for I am by my own nature as calm and firm even as this earth; but the winds suddenly falling on me create these waves, and lash me into fury.”

Who acts: Sea, man, winds · What happens: assume, reply, not blame, be, fall, create · To what, where: form, man, waves, fury, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Sea, man, winds), 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 Sea	det
2	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 assuming	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sea	punct
4	assuming	assume	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 form	det
6	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 assuming	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 woman	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 woman	det
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 form	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
11	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 assuming	advcl
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 replied	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 Blame	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 Blame	punct
16	Blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 assuming	ccomp
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 Blame	advmod
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 Blame	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sir	punct
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 sir	nmod:poss
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sir	amod
22	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Blame	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 winds	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 winds	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 winds	det
26	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sir	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 nature	punct
28	for	for	ADP	_	34 nature	case
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 nature	nsubj
30	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 nature	cop
31	by	by	ADP	_	34 nature	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 nature	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 nature	amod
34	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Blame	parataxis
35	as	as	ADP	_	36 calm	case
36	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 nature	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 firm	cc
38	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 calm	conj
39	even	even	ADV	_	42 earth	advmod
40	as	as	ADP	_	42 earth	case
41	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 earth	det
42	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 firm	obl
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 create	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 create	cc
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 winds	det
46	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 create	nsubj
47	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	48 falling	advmod
48	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	46 winds	acl
49	on	on	ADP	_	50 me	case
50	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 falling	obl
51	create	create	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 Blame	conj
52	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	53 waves	det
53	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 create	obj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 lash	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 lash	cc
56	lash	lash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	16 Blame	parataxis
57	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 lash	obj
58	into	into	ADP	_	59 fury	case
59	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 lash	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 Blame	punct
61	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 Blame	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	assume	gerund	the Sea	the form of a woman			tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	participle	the Sea not said here		man		vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme
3	not blame in a quote	infinitive	the Sea not said here	man			vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	man			for my own nature; as calm	tree rules
5	fall in a quote	gerund	the winds not said here			on man; suddenly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on i=Location
6	create in a quote	present	the winds	this waves			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Result
7	lash in a quote	infinitive		man		into fury result	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient into fury=Result
8	form			a woman			nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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