The Aesop for Children, The Bull and the Goat, sentence 4
"Do not think," he said, "that I submit to your cowardly treatment because I am afraid of you.
Who acts: Bull, your · What happens: not think, say, submit, be, treat · To what, where: that, cowardly treatment · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bull and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bull, your), 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 think | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 think | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 think | advmod |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 think | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 submit | obj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 submit | nsubj |
| 13 | submit | submit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 treatment | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 treatment | nmod:poss |
| 16 | cowardly | cowardly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 treatment | amod |
| 17 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 submit | obl |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 afraid | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 afraid | nsubj |
| 20 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 afraid | cop |
| 21 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 submit | advcl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 afraid | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other in a quote | infinitive · do-support | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Bull | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | submit in a quote | present | Bull | that | your cowardly treatment | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Theme to treatment=Recipient | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | Bull | of you; afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | treat in a quote | your | nom treatment «act transitive»: poss=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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