Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 122

THE HARES, oppressed by their own exceeding timidity and weary of the perpetual alarm to which they were exposed, with one accord determined to put an end to themselves and their troubles by jumping from a lofty precipice into a deep lake below.

Who acts: Hares · What happens: oppress, exceed, expose, determine, put, jump · To what, where: HARES, perpetual alarm, one accord, end, lofty precipice

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hares), 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 HARES	det
2	HARES	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 oppressed	punct
4	oppressed	oppress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 HARES	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	9 timidity	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 timidity	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 timidity	amod
8	exceeding	exceed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 timidity	amod
9	timidity	timidity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 oppressed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 weary	cc
11	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 timidity	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 alarm	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 alarm	det
14	perpetual	perpetual	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 alarm	compound
15	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 weary	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 exposed	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 exposed	nsubj:pass
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 exposed	aux:pass
20	exposed	expose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 alarm	acl:relcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 accord	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 accord	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 accord	nummod
24	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 exposed	obl
25	determined	determine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 accord	acl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 put	mark
27	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 determined	xcomp
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 end	det
29	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 themselves	case
31	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 put	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 troubles	cc
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 troubles	nmod:poss
34	troubles	trouble	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 themselves	conj
35	by	by	SCONJ	_	36 jumping	mark
36	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 put	advcl
37	from	from	ADP	_	40 precipice	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 precipice	det
39	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 precipice	amod
40	precipice	precipice	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 jumping	obl
41	into	into	ADP	_	44 lake	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 lake	det
43	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 lake	amod
44	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 jumping	obl
45	below	below	ADV	_	44 lake	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 HARES	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	oppress	participle		the HARES not said here			by Hares's own exceeding timidity	tree rules
2	exceed	gerund						vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
3	expose	past · passive		Hares = hare	the perpetual alarm		with one accord	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to which=Recipient
4	determine	participle		one accord not said here				vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	put	to-infinitive		a end	Hares = hare			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal
6	jump	gerund				a lofty precipice	into a deep lake result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into lake=Result
7	trouble		Hares = hare					nom trouble «cognition transitive»: 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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