Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 24

The Mule, groaning beneath his heavy burden, said to himself: “I am treated according to my deserts.

Who acts: Mule · What happens: groan, say, treat, accord, burden · To what, where: heavy burden, Mule · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Mule), 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 Mule	det
2	Mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 groaning	punct
4	groaning	groan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Mule	acl
5	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	8 burden	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 burden	nmod:poss
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 burden	amod
8	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 groaning	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mule	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 himself	case
12	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 said	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 treated	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 treated	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 treated	nsubj:pass
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 treated	aux:pass
17	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	conj
18	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 deserts	case
19	to	to	ADP	_	18 according	fixed
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 deserts	nmod:poss
21	deserts	desert	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 treated	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	groan	gerund	the Mule not said here			Mule's heavy burden		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath burden=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the Mule		Mule			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
3	treat in a quote	present · passive		the Mule = mule			accord my deserts	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	accord in a quote	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	burden		Mule					nom burden «cognition 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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