Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 13

“That is the very reason for which you should be put to death,” they said; “for, while you do not fight yourself, your trumpet stirs all the others to battle.”

Who acts: That, arms, you, trumpet · What happens: be, put, say, not fight, stir, battle · To what, where: reason, you, yourself, others · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, arms, you, trumpet), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 reason	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 reason	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 reason	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reason	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 reason	advmod
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 put	obl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 put	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 put	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 put	aux:pass
12	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 reason	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 death	case
14	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 put	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 put	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 reason	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reason	parataxis
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 fight	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 fight	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 fight	mark
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fight	punct
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 fight	mark
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 fight	nsubj
25	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 fight	aux
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 fight	advmod
27	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
28	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 fight	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stirs	punct
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 trumpet	nmod:poss
31	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stirs	nsubj
32	stirs	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 fight	conj
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 others	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 others	det
35	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 stirs	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 battle	mark
37	battle	battle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 stirs	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 reason	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	the reason		tree rules
2	put in a quote	should · passive		you	for the reason; to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
3	say speech: assert	past	arms = arm			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not fight in a quote	present · do-support	you	yourself		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Co-Agent
5	stir in a quote	present	your trumpet	all others		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus other=Experiencer
6	battle in a quote	to-infinitive	your trumpet not said here			vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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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