Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 70

The Swallow, finding her nest empty, lamented greatly and exclaimed: “Woe to me a stranger! that in this place where all others’ rights are protected, I alone should suffer wrong.”

Who acts: Swallow, others · What happens: find, lament, exclaim, protect, suffer · To what, where: nest, Woe, rights · 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 (Swallow, others), 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 Swallow	det
2	Swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 exclaimed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 finding	punct
4	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Swallow	conj
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nest	nmod:poss
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 finding	obj
7	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 finding	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lamented	punct
9	lamented	lament	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Swallow	conj
10	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	12 exclaimed	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 exclaimed	cc
12	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Woe	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Woe	punct
15	Woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 exclaimed	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 Woe	nmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stranger	det
19	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 exclaimed	obj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 place	punct
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 place	nsubj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 place	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 place	det
24	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 exclaimed	parataxis
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	36 suffer	advmod
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 others	det
27	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 suffer	nsubj
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 protected	punct
29	rights	right	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 protected	nsubj:pass
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 protected	aux:pass
31	protected	protect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 others	acl:relcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 suffer	punct
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 suffer	nsubj
34	alone	alone	ADV	_	36 suffer	advmod
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 suffer	aux
36	suffer	suffer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 place	acl:relcl
37	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 suffer	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 place	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 place	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	gerund	the Swallow not said here	Swallow's nest	empty property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Topic
2	lament	participle	the Swallow not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	exclaim speech: express	past	the Swallow	Woe	to me; greatly property	tree rules
4	protect in a quote	present · passive	all others not said here	rights		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary
5	suffer in a quote	should	all others		alone, wrong property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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