Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 18

Finally a neighbor said to them, “If you go on in this way, you will soon destroy by frequent use the pleasure of your exchange, and each will again wish to retain the fruits of his own sport.”

Who acts: Huntsman, frequent, each, your, Fisherman · What happens: say, go on, destroy, use, wish, retain · To what, where: neighbor, Huntsman, way, pleasure, fruits, exchange · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Huntsman, frequent, each, your), 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	Finally	finally	ADV	_	3 neighbor	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 neighbor	det
3	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 neighbor	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 destroy	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 destroy	punct
9	If	if	SCONJ	_	11 go	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
11	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 destroy	advcl
12	on	on	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 way	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 way	det
15	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 destroy	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 destroy	aux
19	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 destroy	advmod
20	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 neighbor	parataxis
21	by	by	SCONJ	_	23 use	mark
22	frequent	frequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 use	nsubj
23	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 destroy	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pleasure	det
25	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 use	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 exchange	case
27	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 exchange	nmod:poss
28	exchange	exchange	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pleasure	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 wish	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 wish	cc
31	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	34 wish	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 wish	aux
33	again	again	ADV	_	34 wish	advmod
34	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 use	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 retain	mark
36	retain	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 wish	xcomp
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 fruits	det
38	fruits	fruit	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 retain	obj
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 sport	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 sport	nmod:poss
41	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 sport	amod
42	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 fruits	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 neighbor	punct
44	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 neighbor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	participle		a neighbor not said here	Huntsman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient
2	go on a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	Huntsman			this way			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location
3	destroy in a quote	future	Huntsman					soon property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	use in a quote	present	frequent	the pleasure of your exchange					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient
5	wish in a quote	future	each				again		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	retain not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	each not said here	the fruits of Fisherman's own sport					tree rules
7	please in a quote			your exchange					nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: of=patient
8	exchange in a quote		your						nom exchange «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent
9	sport in a quote		Fisherman						nom sport «act intransitive»: 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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