Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 67
He said, “I will come myself tomorrow with my laborers, and with as many reapers as I can hire, and will get in the harvest.”
Who acts: owner · What happens: say, come, hire, get · To what, where: owner, many reapers, harvest · 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 (owner), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 8 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 come | obj |
| 9 | tomorrow | tomorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 laborers | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 laborers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | laborers | laborer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 come | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 reapers | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 reapers | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 reapers | case |
| 16 | as | as | ADV | _ | 17 many | advmod |
| 17 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 reapers | amod |
| 18 | reapers | reaper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 said | obl |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 hire | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 hire | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 hire | aux |
| 22 | hire | hire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 reapers | acl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 get | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 get | cc |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 get | aux |
| 26 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | ccomp |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 harvest | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 harvest | det |
| 29 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 get | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 get | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | owner | with many reapers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | future | owner | owner | tomorrow | with my laborers | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location myself=Theme | ||
| 3 | hire in a quote | can | owner | many reapers not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reaper=Theme | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | future | the harvest | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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