The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 7

Therefore, the most guilty one of us must be offered in sacrifice.

What happens: offer · To what, where: guilty one, sacrifice

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: 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	Therefore	therefore	ADV	_	11 offered	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Therefore	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 guilty	advmod
5	guilty	guilty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 offered	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 us	case
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 one	nmod
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 offered	aux
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 offered	aux:pass
11	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 sacrifice	case
13	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 offered	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	must · passive		the guilty one of us		sacrifice		therefore property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=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: «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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