The Aesop for Children, The Oxen and the Wheels, sentence 9

We are drawing all the weight, not you, and we are keeping still about it besides."

Who acts: We, keeping · What happens: draw, keep, beside · To what, where: weight

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Oxen and the Wheels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, keeping), 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 drawing	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drawing	aux
3	drawing	draw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 weight	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 weight	det
6	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drawing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 you	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 you	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 drawing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 keeping	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 keeping	cc
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 keeping	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 keeping	aux
14	keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 besides	csubj
15	still	still	ADV	_	14 keeping	advmod
16	about	about	ADP	_	17 it	case
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 keeping	obl
18	besides	beside	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drawing	parataxis
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drawing	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 drawing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	draw	present · progressive	We	all weight		you obl	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme
2	keep	present · progressive	we		still	about weight	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent about it=Location
3	beside	present	keeping				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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