Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 55

The Housedog replied, “Do not blame me, my friend, but find fault with the master, who has not taught me to labor, but to depend for subsistence on the labor of others.”

Who acts: Housedog, master · What happens: reply, not blame, find, not teach, labor, depend · To what, where: Housedog, fault, master · 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 (Housedog, master), 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 Housedog	det
2	Housedog	Housedog	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 blame	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 blame	punct
6	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 blame	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 blame	advmod
8	blame	blame	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 replied	ccomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 blame	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 friend	punct
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 friend	nmod:poss
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 blame	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 find	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 find	cc
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 blame	parataxis
16	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 find	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 master	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 master	det
19	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 find	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 taught	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 taught	nsubj:pass
22	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 taught	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 taught	advmod
24	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 master	acl:relcl
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 taught	iobj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 labor	mark
27	labor	labor	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 taught	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 depend	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 depend	cc
30	to	to	PART	_	31 depend	mark
31	depend	depend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 find	conj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 subsistence	case
33	subsistence	subsistence	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 depend	obl
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 labor	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 labor	det
36	labor	labor	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 depend	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 others	case
38	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 labor	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the Housedog				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not blame in a quote	infinitive · do-support		the Housedog = housedog			vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	find in a quote	infinitive		fault		with the master	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fault=Topic
4	not teach speech: other in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the master	the Housedog = housedog		tree rules
5	labor in a quote	to-infinitive	the master not said here				vn work-73.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	depend in a quote	to-infinitive				for subsistence; on the labor of others	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on labor=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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