Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 97

In the agony of death, the bird exclaimed: “O unhappy me! who have found in that which I deemed a happy windfall the source of my destruction.”

Who acts: bird, my · What happens: exclaim, find, deem, destroy · To what, where: agony, that, happy windfall · 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 (bird, 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 agony	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 agony	det
3	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 exclaimed	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 death	case
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 agony	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 agony	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 exclaimed	nsubj
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 exclaimed	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 unhappy	punct
12	O	o	INTJ	_	13 unhappy	discourse
13	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 exclaimed	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 unhappy	nsubj
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 found	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 found	aux
18	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 unhappy	parataxis
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 that	case
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 found	obl
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 deemed	obj
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 deemed	nsubj
23	deemed	deem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 found	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 windfall	det
25	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 windfall	amod
26	windfall	windfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 deemed	obj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 source	det
28	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 deemed	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 destruction	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 destruction	nmod:poss
31	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 source	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 unhappy	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	the bird		the agony of death	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	find in a quote	present · perfect			that	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	deem in a quote	past	the bird = bird	a happy windfall		tree rules
4	destroy in a quote		my			nom destruction «act 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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