The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 8

Perhaps we may thus obtain forgiveness and cure for all.

Who acts: we · What happens: obtain · To what, where: forgiveness

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 (we), 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	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 obtain	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 obtain	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 obtain	aux
4	thus	thus	ADV	_	5 obtain	advmod
5	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	forgiveness	forgiveness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 obtain	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cure	cc
8	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forgiveness	conj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 cure	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 obtain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obtain	may	we	forgiveness and cure for all				perhaps, thus property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forgiveness=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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