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title: Yielding up her last breath, she gasped forth this lament: “O wretch… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Yielding up her last breath, she gasped forth this lament: “O wretched creature that I am! to take such precaution against the land, and after all to find this seashore, to which I had come for safety, so much more perilous.” Who acts: Doe, many plans. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 93

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Yielding up her last breath, she gasped forth this lament: “O wretched creature that I am! to take such precaution against the land, and after all to find this seashore, to which I had come for safety, so much more perilous.”

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**Who acts:** Doe, many plans · **What happens:** yield up, gasp, take, find, come · **To what, where:** last breath, lament, such precaution, land, seashore

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Doe, many plans), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg21:7:93
# text = Yielding up her last breath, she gasped forth this lament: “O wretched creature that I am! to take such precaution against the land, and after all to find this seashore, to which I had come for safety, so much more perilous.”
1	Yielding	yield	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gasped	gasp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	lament	lament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
15	wretched	wretched	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obj	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
23	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	precaution	precaution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	against	against	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
30	after	after	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	48	obl	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
34	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	seashore	seashore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	obl	_	_
39	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	acl:relcl	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
45	so	so	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
46	much	much	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	48	advmod	_	_
48	perilous	perilous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	48	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yield up** | gerund | Doe *not said here* | Doe's last breath |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |
| 2 | **gasp** | past | Doe | this lament |  |  |  | forth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Doe *not said here* | such precaution |  | the land |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent precaution=Theme against land=Destination |
| 4 | **find** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Doe *not said here* | this seashore |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seashore=Topic |
| 5 | **come** *in a quote* | past · perfect | the many plans *= plan* |  |  | this seashore |  | for safety | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to which=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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**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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