The Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones, sentence 9

If the Farmer said he would call in his neighbors and friends to help him do his work, this wheat will not be reaped for a while yet."

Who acts: Farmer, he, him, his · What happens: say, call, help, do, not reap, work · To what, where: neighbors, him, work, 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 (Farmer, he, him, his), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 said	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Farmer	det
3	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 reaped	advcl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 call	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 call	aux
7	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 neighbors	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 neighbors	nmod:poss
10	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 call	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 friends	cc
12	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 neighbors	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 help	mark
14	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 call	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 help	obj
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 help	xcomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 work	nmod:poss
18	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 wheat	det
21	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reaped	nsubj:pass
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 reaped	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 reaped	advmod
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 reaped	aux:pass
25	reaped	reap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 while	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 while	det
28	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reaped	obl
29	yet	yet	ADV	_	25 reaped	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 reaped	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 reaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	past	the Farmer				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	call	would	he		his neighbors and friends		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	help	to-infinitive	he not said here	him = he			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
4	do	infinitive	him = he not said here	his work			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
5	not reap	future · passive		this wheat		yet; while	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	work		his = he				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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