Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 12

The Fisherman replied, “I should indeed be a very simple fellow if, for the chance of a greater uncertain profit, I were to forego my present certain gain.”

Who acts: Fisherman, chance, greater uncertain profit · What happens: reply, be, forego, chance · To what, where: simple fellow, present certain gain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fisherman, chance, greater uncertain profit), 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 Fisherman	det
2	Fisherman	Fisherman	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fellow	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 fellow	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 fellow	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fellow	aux
8	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	13 fellow	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 fellow	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fellow	det
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 simple	advmod
12	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fellow	amod
13	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 replied	ccomp
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 forego	mark
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 chance	punct
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 chance	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 chance	det
18	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 forego	nsubj
19	of	of	ADP	_	23 profit	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 profit	det
21	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	23 profit	amod
22	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 profit	amod
23	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 chance	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 I	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 profit	conj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 forego	aux
27	to	to	PART	_	28 forego	mark
28	forego	forego	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 fellow	acl
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 gain	nmod:poss
30	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 gain	amod
31	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 gain	amod
32	gain	gain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 forego	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 forego	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 forego	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the Fisherman			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	should	the Fisherman = fisherman	a simple fellow	indeed property	tree rules
3	forego a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	the chance of a greater uncertain profit	my present certain gain		vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gain=Theme
4	chance in a quote		a greater uncertain profit			nom chance «state intransitive»: of=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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