The Aesop for Children, Hercules and the Wagoner, sentence 8
Hercules will not help unless you make some effort to help yourself."
Who acts: Hercules, you · What happens: not help, make, help · To what, where: effort, yourself
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hercules, you), 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 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 help | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 help | advmod |
| 4 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 make | nsubj |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 help | advcl |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 effort | det |
| 9 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 help | mark |
| 11 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 effort | acl |
| 12 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 help | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | future | Hercules | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make a condition, not said to happen | present | you | some effort | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product | ||||
| 3 | help | to-infinitive | you not said here | yourself | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary |
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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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