Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 15

On this the truthful Traveler thought to himself, “If so great a reward be given for a lie, with what gift may not I be rewarded, if, according to my custom, I tell the truth?”

Who acts: truthful Traveler · What happens: think, give, not reward, accord, tell · To what, where: sort, this, reward, gift, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (truthful Traveler), 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 thought	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Traveler	det
4	truthful	truthful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Traveler	amod
5	Traveler	Traveler	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 thought	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 great	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 great	punct
11	If	if	SCONJ	_	13 great	mark
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 great	advmod
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thought	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 reward	det
15	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 given	nsubj:pass
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 given	aux:pass
17	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 great	acl:relcl
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 lie	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 lie	det
20	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 given	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 what	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 what	case
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 thought	ccomp
24	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rewarded	nsubj:outer
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 rewarded	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 rewarded	advmod
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 rewarded	nsubj
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 rewarded	aux:pass
29	rewarded	reward	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 what	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 what	punct
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 what	case
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 what	punct
33	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	36 custom	case
34	to	to	ADP	_	33 according	fixed
35	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 custom	nmod:poss
36	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 what	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 tell	punct
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 tell	nsubj
39	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	ccomp
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 truth	det
41	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tell	obj
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	39 tell	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	39 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the truthful Traveler		sort	this		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	give in a quote	infinitive · passive		a reward			for a lie	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for lie=Asset
3	not reward in a quote	may · passive		gift				vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	accord in a quote	gerund						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	present	the truthful Traveler = traveler	the truth				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient

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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