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Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 27

“Forbear,” said the Miller to him, “harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.”

Who acts: Forbear · What happens: say, harp, be, sustain · To what, where: Miller, yore, ups · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Forbear), 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

punctnsubjpunctpunctdetnsubjcaseoblpunctpunctadvclcasensubjcopcaseoblpunctcasensubjcopdetamodoblcasenmodmarkadvcldetobjccconjcasenmodpunctpunctroot“PUNCTForbearNOUN,PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBtheDETMillerPROPNtoADPhimPRON,PUNCT“PUNCTharpingVERBonADPwhatPRONwasAUXofADPyoreNOUN,PUNCTforADPitPRONisAUXtheDETcommonADJlotNOUNofADPmortalsNOUNtoPARTsustainVERBtheDETupsNOUNandCCONJdownsNOUNofADPfortuneNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_2 Forbearpunct
2ForbearforbearNOUNNumber=Sing5 saidnsubj
3,,PUNCT_2 Forbearpunct
4”"PUNCT_2 Forbearpunct
5saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 Millerdet
7MillerMillerPROPNNumber=Sing5 saidnsubj
8totoADP_9 himcase
9himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 saidobl
10,,PUNCT_12 harpingpunct
11“"PUNCT_12 harpingpunct
12harpingharpVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part5 saidadvcl
13ononADP_17 yorecase
14whatwhatPRONPronType=Int17 yorensubj
15wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin17 yorecop
16ofofADP_17 yorecase
17yoreyoreNOUNNumber=Sing12 harpingobl
18,,PUNCT_24 lotpunct
19forforADP_24 lotcase
20ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 lotnsubj
21isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin24 lotcop
22thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 lotdet
23commoncommonADJDegree=Pos24 lotamod
24lotlotNOUNNumber=Sing12 harpingobl
25ofofADP_26 mortalscase
26mortalsmortalNOUNNumber=Plur24 lotnmod
27totoPART_28 sustainmark
28sustainsustainVERBVerbForm=Inf12 harpingadvcl
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 upsdet
30upsupNOUNNumber=Plur28 sustainobj
31andandCCONJ_32 downscc
32downsdownNOUNNumber=Plur30 upsconj
33ofofADP_34 fortunecase
34fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing32 downsnmod
35..PUNCT_12 harpingpunct
36”"PUNCT_12 harpingpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpastForbearMillervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2harp in a quotegerundForbear not said heretree rules
3is in a quotepastyoretree rules
4is in a quotepresentForbearfor the common lot; of mortalstree rules
5sustain in a quoteto-infinitiveForbear not said herethe ups and downs of fortunevn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent up=Theme

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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