Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 75

We live in freedom, but you bow down to and slave for men, who in return for your services flog you with whips and put collars on your necks.

Who acts: We, you, men, your · What happens: live, bow down, slave, flog, put, service · To what, where: freedom, you, return

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, you, men, 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 freedom	case
4	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 live	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bow	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 bow	cc
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 bow	nsubj
8	bow	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 live	parataxis
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 bow	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 down	fixed
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 slave	cc
12	slave	slave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 bow	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 men	case
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 slave	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 flog	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 flog	nsubj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 return	case
18	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flog	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 services	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 services	nmod:poss
21	services	service	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 return	nmod
22	flog	flog	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 men	acl:relcl
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 flog	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 whips	case
25	whips	whip	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 flog	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 collars	cc
27	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 collars	amod
28	collars	collar	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 whips	conj
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 necks	case
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 necks	nmod:poss
31	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 collars	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 live	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	present	We		freedom		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in freedom=Location
2	bow down	present	you			down property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	slave	infinitive	you not said here			for men	tree rules
4	flog	present	men	you	return for your services	with whips and put collars on your necks	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient in return=Location with whip=Instrument
5	put	participle					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
6	service		your				nom service «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: «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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