The Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones, sentence 5
We must call in our neighbors and friends to help us harvest it."
Who acts: We, us · What happens: call, help, harvest · To what, where: neighbors, us, wheat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lark and Her Young Ones. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, us), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 call | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 call | aux |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 neighbors | case |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 neighbors | nmod:poss |
| 6 | neighbors | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 call | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 friends | cc |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 neighbors | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 help | mark |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 call | advcl |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 help | obj |
| 12 | harvest | harvest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 help | xcomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 harvest | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | must | We | our neighbors and friends | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | help | to-infinitive | We not said here | us | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | harvest | infinitive | us not said here | wheat | 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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