Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 125

I on the contrary affirm that I am still blind; for when I lost the use of my eyes, I saw in my house various chattels and valuable goods: but now, though he swears I am cured of my blindness, I am not able to see a single thing in it.”

Who acts: I, MAN · What happens: be, lose, see, swear, cure, not be · To what, where: contrary affirm, use, house various chattels, I, single thing, thing

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, MAN), 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	10 blind	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 affirm	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 affirm	det
4	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 affirm	amod
5	affirm	affirm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blind	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 blind	nsubj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 blind	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 blind	cop
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 blind	advmod
10	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 blind	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 lost	mark
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	15 lost	mark
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 lost	nsubj
15	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 blind	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 use	det
17	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lost	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 eyes	case
19	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eyes	nmod:poss
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 use	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saw	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 saw	nsubj
23	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 blind	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	28 chattels	case
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 chattels	nmod:poss
26	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 chattels	compound
27	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 chattels	amod
28	chattels	chattel	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 saw	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 goods	cc
30	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 goods	amod
31	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	28 chattels	conj
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	34 now	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 now	cc
34	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 blind	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 swears	punct
36	though	though	SCONJ	_	38 swears	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 swears	nsubj
38	swears	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 blind	conj
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 cured	nsubj
40	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 cured	aux:pass
41	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 swears	ccomp
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 blindness	case
43	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 blindness	nmod:poss
44	blindness	blindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 cured	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 able	punct
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 able	nsubj
47	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 able	cop
48	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 able	advmod
49	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 blind	conj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 see	mark
51	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 able	xcomp
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 thing	det
53	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 thing	amod
54	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 see	obj
55	in	in	ADP	_	56 it	case
56	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 see	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 blind	punct
58	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 blind	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	I		the contrary affirm	still; now	blind property	tree rules
2	lose	past	I	the use of my eyes				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Eventuality
3	see	past	I		my house various chattels and valuable goods			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	swear	present	MAN					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	cure	present · passive		I			of my blindness	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source of blindness=Theme
6	not is	present	I				able property	tree rules
7	see	to-infinitive	I not said here	a single thing	thing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
8	use			my eyes				nom use «act 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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