The Aesop for Children, The Travelers and the Purse, sentence 15
_We cannot expect any one to share our misfortunes unless we are willing to share our good fortune also.
Who acts: We, one · What happens: not expect, share, be · To what, where: one, misfortunes, good fortune
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Travelers and the Purse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, one), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 expect | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 expect | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 expect | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 expect | advmod |
| 5 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 one | det |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 expect | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 share | mark |
| 9 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 expect | xcomp |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 misfortunes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 share | obj |
| 12 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 15 willing | mark |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 willing | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 willing | cop |
| 15 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 share | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 share | mark |
| 17 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 willing | xcomp |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fortune | amod |
| 20 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 share | obj |
| 21 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 share | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not expect | can | We | any one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | share not said to happen | to-infinitive | any one not said here | our misfortunes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | we | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | share | to-infinitive | we not said here | our good fortune | 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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