Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 88

They replied, “You fight and contend with the wind, and consequently you are destroyed; while we on the contrary bend before the least breath of air, and therefore remain unbroken, and escape.”

Who acts: Reeds, You, we · What happens: reply, fight, contend, destroy, remain, escape · To what, where: you · 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 (Reeds, You, we), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 replied	nsubj
2	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fight	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 fight	punct
5	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 fight	nsubj
6	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 replied	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 contend	cc
8	contend	contend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fight	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 wind	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wind	det
11	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 contend	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 destroyed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 destroyed	cc
14	consequently	consequently	ADV	_	17 destroyed	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 destroyed	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 destroyed	aux:pass
17	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 contend	parataxis
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 remain	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	34 remain	mark
20	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 remain	nsubj
21	on	on	ADP	_	24 bend	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bend	det
23	contrary	contrary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 bend	amod
24	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 we	nmod
25	before	before	ADP	_	28 breath	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 breath	det
27	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	28 breath	amod
28	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bend	nmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 air	case
30	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 breath	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 remain	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 remain	cc
33	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	34 remain	advmod
34	remain	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 replied	conj
35	unbroken	unbroken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 remain	xcomp
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 escape	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 escape	cc
38	escape	escape	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 replied	parataxis
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 escape	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	38 escape	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Reeds = reed			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fight in a quote	present	You			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	contend in a quote	present	You not said here		with the wind	vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with wind=Co-Agent
4	destroy in a quote	present · passive		you	consequently property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	remain in a quote	present	we		therefore, unbroken property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	escape in a quote	infinitive				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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