Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 25

They entreated Jupiter that they might no longer be associated with the Ills, as they had nothing in common and could not live together, but were engaged in unceasing warfare; and that an indissoluble law might be laid down for their future protection.

Who acts: Goods · What happens: entreat, associate, have, not live together, engage, lay down · To what, where: Jupiter, Goods, nothing, common, unceasing warfare, indissoluble law

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 (Goods), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 entreated	nsubj
2	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 entreated	obj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 associated	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 associated	nsubj:pass
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 associated	aux
7	no	no	ADV	_	8 longer	advmod
8	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 associated	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 associated	aux:pass
10	associated	associate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 entreated	advcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 Ills	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Ills	det
13	Ills	ill	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 associated	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 had	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 entreated	parataxis
18	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	17 had	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 common	case
20	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nothing	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 live	cc
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 live	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 live	advmod
24	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 had	conj
25	together	together	ADV	_	24 live	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 engaged	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 engaged	cc
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 engaged	aux:pass
29	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 entreated	parataxis
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 warfare	case
31	unceasing	unceasing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 warfare	amod
32	warfare	warfare	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 engaged	obl
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 laid	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 laid	cc
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 laid	mark
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 law	det
37	indissoluble	indissoluble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 law	amod
38	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 laid	nsubj:pass
39	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 laid	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 laid	aux:pass
41	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 entreated	parataxis
42	down	down	ADP	_	41 laid	compound:prt
43	for	for	ADP	_	46 protection	case
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 protection	nmod:poss
45	future	future	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 protection	amod
46	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 laid	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 entreated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	entreat	past	Goods		Jupiter			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jupiter=Recipient
2	associate	might · passive		Goods			with the Ills; long property	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with ill=Co-Patient
3	have	past	Goods	nothing		common		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
4	not live together	could	Goods not said here				together property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	engage	past · passive					in unceasing warfare goal	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: in warfare=Goal
6	lay down	might · passive		a indissoluble law			for Goods's future protection	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for protection=Beneficiary
7	protect		Goods					nom protection «act transitive»: poss=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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