Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 67
I repeat that I am altogether more powerful than you; and if you doubt it, let us fight and see who will conquer.”
Who acts: I, you, us · What happens: repeat, be, doubt, let, fight, see · To what, where: Vine, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, us), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 repeat | nsubj |
| 2 | repeat | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 powerful | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 powerful | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 powerful | cop |
| 6 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 8 powerful | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 powerful | advmod |
| 8 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 repeat | ccomp |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 you | case |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 powerful | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 let | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 let | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 doubt | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 doubt | nsubj |
| 15 | doubt | doubt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 let | advcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 doubt | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 doubt | punct |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 repeat | conj |
| 19 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 let | obj |
| 20 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 see | cc |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 fight | conj |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 conquer | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 conquer | aux |
| 25 | conquer | conquer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 see | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 repeat | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 repeat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | present | I | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | present | I | than you; altogether, powerful property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | doubt a condition, not said to happen | present | you | Vine | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | I not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fight | infinitive | us not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | see | infinitive | us not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | conquer | future | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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