The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd and the Lion, sentence 4

But before starting out he made a vow to Jupiter that if he would help him find the thief he would offer a fat Calf as a sacrifice.

Who acts: Shepherd, Jupiter · What happens: start out, make, help, find, offer · To what, where: vow, Jupiter, thief, fat Calf

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Shepherd and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shepherd, Jupiter), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 made	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	3 starting	mark
3	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 made	advcl
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 starting	compound:prt
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 vow	det
8	vow	vow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Jupiter	case
10	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 vow	nmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 help	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 help	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 help	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 help	aux
15	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 help	obj
17	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 help	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 thief	det
19	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 find	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 offer	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 offer	aux
22	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 thief	acl:relcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 Calf	det
24	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Calf	amod
25	Calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 offer	obj
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 sacrifice	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 sacrifice	det
28	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 offer	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	start out	gerund	Shepherd not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	make	past	Shepherd	a vow	to Jupiter	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vow=Product
3	help a condition, not said to happen	would	Shepherd	Jupiter		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	find	infinitive	Jupiter not said here	the thief		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Topic
5	offer	would	Shepherd	a fat Calf	as a sacrifice	vn volunteer-95.4 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent calf=Pivot as sacrifice=Attribute

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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