Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 125

Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, “O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.”

Who acts: feet, we · What happens: expire, exclaim, destroy · To what, where: ourselves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feet, we), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	5 expiring	advmod
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 expiring	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 expiring	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 expiring	aux
5	expiring	expire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 exclaimed	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 expiring	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 exclaimed	nsubj
8	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sake	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 sake	punct
11	O	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	13 creatures	case
12	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 creatures	amod
13	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sake	obl
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 are	obj
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 are	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sake	csubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sake	punct
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 sake	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sake	det
20	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 exclaimed	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 pleasure	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pleasure	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pleasure	amod
24	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sake	nmod
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 destroyed	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 destroyed	aux
27	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 pleasure	acl:relcl
28	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 destroyed	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 exclaimed	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	expire	past · progressive	feet = foot			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	exclaim speech: express	past	feet = foot		for the sake of a little pleasure	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	destroy in a quote	present · perfect	we	ourselves		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=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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