Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 71
If we had not given up the rights of the ash, we might yet have retained our own privileges and have stood for ages.”
Who acts: we · What happens: not give up, retain, stand · To what, where: rights, we
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 (we), 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 given | mark |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 given | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 given | advmod |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 retained | advcl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 given | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rights | det |
| 8 | rights | right | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 given | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 ash | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ash | det |
| 11 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rights | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 given | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 retained | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 retained | aux |
| 15 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 17 retained | advmod |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 retained | aux |
| 17 | retained | retain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 privileges | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 privileges | amod |
| 20 | privileges | privilege | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 retained | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stood | cc |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 stood | aux |
| 23 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 retained | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 ages | case |
| 25 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 stood | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 retained | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 retained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give up a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | we | the rights of the ash | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent right=Source | ||||
| 2 | retain | might · perfect · passive | we | yet | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stand | present · perfect | for ages | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for age=Attribute |
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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