The Aesop for Children, The Travelers and the Purse, sentence 7
Travelers ought to share alike the fortunes or misfortunes of the road."
Who acts: Travelers · What happens: share
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 (Travelers), 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 | Travelers | traveler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 share | nsubj |
| 2 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 share | aux |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 share | mark |
| 4 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | alike | alike | ADP | _ | 7 fortunes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fortunes | det |
| 7 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 share | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 misfortunes | cc |
| 9 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fortunes | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 road | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 road | det |
| 12 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 misfortunes | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 share | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 share | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | ought | Travelers | alike the fortunes or misfortunes of the road | 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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