Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 40

An Ox gave him this kindly warning: “O unhappy creature! why should you thus, of your own accord, incur destruction and trust yourself in the house of your enemy?”

Who acts: Ox · What happens: give, incur, trust · To what, where: warning, Stag, destruction, yourself, house · 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 (Ox), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Ox	det
2	Ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 warning	det
6	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	7 warning	advmod
7	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 creature	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 creature	punct
10	O	o	INTJ	_	11 unhappy	discourse
11	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 creature	amod
12	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 warning	nmod
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 creature	punct
14	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 thus	advmod
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 thus	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 thus	nsubj
17	thus	thus	ADV	_	3 gave	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 accord	punct
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 accord	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 accord	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 accord	amod
22	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 incur	punct
24	incur	incur	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 accord	parataxis
25	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 incur	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 trust	cc
27	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	24 incur	conj
28	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 trust	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 house	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 house	det
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 trust	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 enemy	case
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 enemy	nmod:poss
34	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 house	nmod
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 accord	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	22 accord	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	past	a Ox	this warning unhappy creature	Stag		thus property	tree rules
2	incur in a quote	infinitive		destruction				tree rules
3	trust in a quote	infinitive		yourself		the house of your enemy		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=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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