The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 21
"And so far as shepherds are concerned, we all know they belong to that puny race that pretends to be our masters."
Who acts: shepherds, we, sheep, puny race · What happens: be, know, belong, pretend · To what, where: masters
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Animals and the Plague. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherds, we, sheep, puny race), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 belong | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 know | cc |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 far | advmod |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 know | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 concerned | mark |
| 6 | shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 concerned | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 concerned | cop |
| 8 | concerned | concerned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 far | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 know | advmod |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 belong | parataxis |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 belong | nsubj |
| 14 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 race | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 race | det |
| 17 | puny | puny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 race | amod |
| 18 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 belong | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 pretends | nsubj |
| 20 | pretends | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 race | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 masters | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 masters | cop |
| 23 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 masters | nmod:poss |
| 24 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 pretends | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 belong | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | shepherds | concerned property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | we | far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | belong in a quote | present | sheep | to that puny race | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pretend in a quote | present | that puny race | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | our masters | tree rules |
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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