Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 7

For if you use your sting, it shall remain in the wound you make, and then you will die from the loss of it.”

Who acts: you, sting, your · What happens: use, remain, make, die, sting · To what, where: sting, wound, loss

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 (you, sting, your), 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	For	for	SCONJ	_	4 use	mark
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 use	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 use	nsubj
4	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 remain	advcl
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sting	nmod:poss
6	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 use	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 remain	nsubj
9	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 remain	aux
10	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 wound	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wound	det
13	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 remain	obl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 make	nsubj
15	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wound	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 die	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 die	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 die	advmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 die	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 die	aux
21	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 remain	conj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 loss	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 loss	det
24	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 die	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 it	case
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 loss	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 die	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	use a condition, not said to happen	present	you	your sting			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sting=Patient
2	remain	shall	sting		the wound		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wound=Location
3	make	present	you	the wound not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Product
4	die	future	you		the loss of sting	then	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from loss=Causer
5	sting		your				nom sting «state 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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