Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 35
I rather deserve to be praised for what I have been, than to be blamed for what I am.”
Who acts: I · What happens: deserve, praise, blame, be
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 deserve | nsubj |
| 2 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 3 deserve | advmod |
| 3 | deserve | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 praised | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 praised | aux:pass |
| 6 | praised | praise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 deserve | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 what | case |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 praised | obl |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 been | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 been | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 what | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 blamed | punct |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 16 blamed | mark |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 blamed | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 blamed | aux:pass |
| 16 | blamed | blame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 praised | parataxis |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 what | case |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 blamed | obl |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 am | nsubj |
| 20 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | cop |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 deserve | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 deserve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deserve | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | praise | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: for what=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | blame | to-infinitive · passive | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | tree rules |
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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