Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 49

The expiring Lion said, “I have reluctantly brooked the insults of the brave, but to be compelled to endure such treatment from thee, a disgrace to Nature, is indeed to die a double death.”

Who acts: Lion · What happens: expire, say, brook, compel, endure, be · To what, where: insults, such treatment, thee · 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 (Lion), 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 expiring	det
2	expiring	expire	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 said	ccomp
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 brooked	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 brooked	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 brooked	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 brooked	aux
9	reluctantly	reluctantly	ADV	_	10 brooked	advmod
10	brooked	brook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 said	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 insults	det
12	insults	insult	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 brooked	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 brave	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 brave	det
15	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 insults	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 compelled	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 compelled	cc
18	to	to	PART	_	20 compelled	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 compelled	aux:pass
20	compelled	compel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 said	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 endure	mark
22	endure	endure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 compelled	xcomp
23	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 treatment	amod
24	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 endure	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 thee	case
26	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 endure	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 disgrace	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 disgrace	det
29	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 compelled	parataxis
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 Nature	case
31	Nature	Nature	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 disgrace	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 die	punct
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 die	cop
34	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	36 die	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 die	mark
36	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 death	det
38	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 death	amod
39	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 die	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 die	punct
41	”	"	PUNCT	_	36 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	expire	gerund					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	Lion				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	brook in a quote	present · perfect	Lion	the insults of the brave		reluctantly property	tree rules
4	compel in a quote	to-infinitive · passive					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
5	endure in a quote	to-infinitive		such treatment	thee		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme treatment=Circumstance
6	is in a quote	present				die, indeed property	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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