The Aesop for Children, The Goatherd and the Wild Goats, sentence 7

We know how you would treat us later on, if some strangers should come as we did."

Who acts: We, you, strangers · What happens: know, treat on, come, do · To what, where: us · 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 (We, you, strangers), 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 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 treat	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 treat	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 treat	aux
6	treat	treat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 know	ccomp
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 treat	obj
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 treat	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	6 treat	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 come	mark
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 strangers	det
13	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 come	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 treat	conj
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 did	mark
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 did	nsubj
18	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 come	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	know	present	We			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	treat on	would	you	us	late property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient
3	come a condition, not said to happen	should	some strangers			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	do	past	we			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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