Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 130

With his last breath he said to himself, “I am rightly served; for what business had I who had never handled a net to try and catch fish?”

Who acts: Necessity, business · What happens: say, serve, have, not handle, try, catch · To what, where: Necessity, fish · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Necessity, business), 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	With	with	ADP	_	4 breath	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 breath	nmod:poss
3	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 breath	amod
4	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 said	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 served	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 served	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 served	nsubj
12	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 served	aux:pass
13	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	14 served	advmod
14	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 said	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 what	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 what	case
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 said	ccomp
18	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 what	acl:relcl
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 handled	nsubj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 handled	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 handled	aux
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 handled	advmod
24	handled	handle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 had	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 net	det
26	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 handled	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 try	mark
28	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 handled	advcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 catch	cc
30	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 try	conj
31	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 catch	obj
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 what	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Necessity		Necessity	with Necessity's last breath	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
2	serve in a quote	present · passive		Necessity		rightly property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
3	have in a quote	past	business				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	not handle in a quote	past · perfect · passive		Necessity			tree rules
5	try in a quote	to-infinitive					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	catch in a quote	infinitive		fish			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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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