The Aesop for Children, The Lion's Share, sentence 8

This next part falls to me because I am the strongest; and _this_ is mine because I am the bravest."

Who acts: next part, I, _ · What happens: fall, be · To what, where: me, mine

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion's Share. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next part, I, _), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 part	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 part	amod
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 falls	nsubj
4	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 falls	obl
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 strongest	mark
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 strongest	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 strongest	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 strongest	det
11	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 falls	advcl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 mine	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 mine	cc
14	_	_	PUNCT	_	13 and	punct
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 _	det
16	_	_	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 mine	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 mine	cop
18	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 falls	parataxis
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	23 bravest	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 bravest	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 bravest	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bravest	det
23	bravest	brave	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 falls	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 falls	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 falls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	fall	present	this next part		me		vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to i=Pivot
2	is	present	I			strong property	tree rules
3	is a	present	this _	mine			tree rules
4	is	present	I			brave property	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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