Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 69
The Dolphin replied, “Nay, my friend, blame not me, but Nature, which, while giving me the sovereignty of the sea, has quite denied me the power of living upon the land.”
Who acts: Dolphin, friend, power · What happens: reply, not blame, give, deny, live · To what, where: Dolphin, sovereignty, land · 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 (Dolphin, friend, power), 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 Dolphin | det |
| 2 | Dolphin | Dolphin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 blame | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 blame | punct |
| 6 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 11 blame | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 friend | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friend | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blame | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 friend | punct |
| 11 | blame | blame | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | ccomp |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 blame | advmod |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 blame | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Nature | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 Nature | cc |
| 16 | Nature | Nature | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 blame | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 which | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 Nature | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 which | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 giving | mark |
| 21 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 blame | advcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 giving | iobj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sovereignty | det |
| 24 | sovereignty | sovereignty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 giving | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 sea | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sea | det |
| 27 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sovereignty | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 denied | punct |
| 29 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 denied | aux |
| 30 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 31 denied | advmod |
| 31 | denied | deny | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 blame | parataxis |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 denied | obj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 power | det |
| 34 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 denied | obj |
| 35 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 36 living | mark |
| 36 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 power | acl |
| 37 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 39 land | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 land | det |
| 39 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 living | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 denied | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 denied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Dolphin | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not blame in a quote | infinitive | my friend | the Dolphin = dolphin | Nature obl | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | give in a quote | gerund | my friend not said here | the sovereignty of the sea | the Dolphin = dolphin | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient sovereignty=Theme | |||
| 4 | deny in a quote | present · perfect | the Dolphin = dolphin | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme power=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | live in a quote | gerund | the power not said here | the land | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon land=Location |
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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