Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 77
If you will be persuaded by us, you will give us the sheep, and we will enjoy them in common, till we all are surfeited.”
Who acts: us, you, we · What happens: persuade, give, enjoy, surfeit · To what, where: you, sheep, us, common, 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 (us, you, 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 persuaded | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 persuaded | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 persuaded | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 5 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 give | advcl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 us | case |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 persuaded | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 persuaded | punct |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 give | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 give | aux |
| 11 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 give | iobj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sheep | det |
| 14 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 give | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 enjoy | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 enjoy | cc |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 enjoy | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 enjoy | aux |
| 19 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 give | parataxis |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 enjoy | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 common | case |
| 22 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 enjoy | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 surfeited | punct |
| 24 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 28 surfeited | mark |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 surfeited | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 surfeited | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 surfeited | aux:pass |
| 28 | surfeited | surfeit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 enjoy | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | persuade a condition, not said to happen | future · passive | us | you | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | give | future | you | the sheep | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient sheep=Theme | |||
| 3 | enjoy | future | we | sheep | common | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | surfeit | present · passive | we | tree rules |
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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