Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 124
If you are a friend, why do you bite me so hard?
Who acts: you · What happens: be, bite · To what, where: friend, me
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 friend | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 friend | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 friend | det |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bite | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 7 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 bite | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 bite | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 bite | nsubj |
| 10 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 bite | obj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 hard | advmod |
| 13 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 bite | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 bite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | you | a friend | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bite | present · do-support | you | me | hard property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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