The Aesop for Children, The Goatherd and the Wild Goats, sentence 6
"Do not expect us to join your flock," replied one of the Wild Goats. "
Who acts: you, us · What happens: not expect, join, reply · To what, where: us, flock, one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goatherd and the Wild Goats. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us), 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 | _ | 4 expect | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 expect | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 expect | advmod |
| 4 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 expect | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 join | mark |
| 7 | join | join | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 expect | xcomp |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 flock | nmod:poss |
| 9 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 join | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 expect | parataxis |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 replied | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Goats | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Goats | det |
| 16 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Goats | compound |
| 17 | Goats | Goat | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 expect | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not expect in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | join not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | us not said here | your flock | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | one of the Wild Goats | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
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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