The Aesop for Children, The Wild Boar and the Fox, sentence 8
My weapons will have to be ready for use then, or I shall suffer for it."
Who acts: weapons, I · What happens: have, be, suffer
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wild Boar and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weapons, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 weapons | nmod:poss |
| 2 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 ready | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ready | cop |
| 7 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 have | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 use | case |
| 9 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ready | obl |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 ready | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 suffer | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 suffer | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 suffer | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 suffer | aux |
| 15 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 ready | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 suffer | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | future | My weapons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | My weapons not said here | then | for use; ready property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | suffer | shall | I | for use | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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