The Aesop for Children, The Oak and the Reeds, sentence 8

We bow before them and so we do not break.

Who acts: We · What happens: bow, not break

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Oak and the Reeds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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	2 bow	nsubj
2	bow	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bow	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 break	cc
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 break	advmod
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 break	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 break	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 break	advmod
10	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bow	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	present	We				before Reeds = reed		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before they=Location
2	not break	present · do-support	we						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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