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

On this, he who had fought with the Robber made answer, “I only wish that you had helped me just now, even if it had been only with those words, for I should have been the more encouraged, believing them to be true; but now put up your sword in its sheath and hold your equally useless tongue, till you can deceive others who do not know you.

Who acts: cloak, Robber, traveling cloak, you, answer, others · What happens: fight, make, wish, help, be, have · To what, where: this, answer, traveling cloak, words, sword, sheath · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cloak, Robber, traveling cloak, you), 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	7 fought	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 this	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fought	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 fought	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fought	aux
7	fought	fight	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	with	with	SCONJ	_	11 made	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Robber	det
10	Robber	Robber	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 made	nsubj
11	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fought	advcl
12	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 made	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 wish	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 wish	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 wish	nsubj
16	only	only	ADV	_	17 wish	advmod
17	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fought	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 helped	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 helped	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 helped	aux
21	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 wish	ccomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 helped	obj
23	just	just	ADV	_	24 now	advmod
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 helped	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 words	punct
26	even	even	ADV	_	34 words	advmod
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 words	mark
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 words	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 words	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 words	cop
31	only	only	ADV	_	34 words	advmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 words	case
33	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 words	det
34	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fought	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 should	punct
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 should	case
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 should	nsubj
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fought	conj
39	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 should	xcomp
40	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	43 encouraged	cop
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 encouraged	det
42	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	43 encouraged	advmod
43	encouraged	encouraged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 have	xcomp
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 believing	punct
45	believing	believe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 encouraged	advcl
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 believing	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	49 true	mark
48	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 true	cop
49	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 believing	ccomp
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 put	punct
51	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 put	cc
52	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	53 put	advmod
53	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 fought	parataxis
54	up	up	ADP	_	53 put	compound:prt
55	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 sword	nmod:poss
56	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 put	obj
57	in	in	ADP	_	59 sheath	case
58	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 sheath	nmod:poss
59	sheath	sheath	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 put	obl
60	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 hold	cc
61	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	53 put	conj
62	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	65 tongue	nmod:poss
63	equally	equally	ADV	_	64 useless	advmod
64	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 tongue	amod
65	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 hold	obj
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 deceive	punct
67	till	till	SCONJ	_	70 deceive	mark
68	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	70 deceive	nsubj
69	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	70 deceive	aux
70	deceive	deceive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 hold	conj
71	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 deceive	obj
72	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	75 know	nsubj
73	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	75 know	aux
74	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	75 know	advmod
75	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	71 others	acl:relcl
76	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	75 know	obj
77	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past · perfect	cloak			this			tree rules
2	make	past	the Robber	answer					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product
3	wish in a quote	present	Robber's traveling cloak = cloak						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	help in a quote	past · perfect	you		Robber's traveling cloak = cloak		now		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
5	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	answer					with that words	tree rules
6	have in a quote	infinitive	cloak not said here						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	is in a quote	participle	cloak not said here					encouraged property	tree rules
8	believe in a quote	gerund	cloak not said here	words = word					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
9	is in a quote	to-infinitive						true property	tree rules
10	put up in a quote	infinitive		your sword		sword's sheath	now		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in sheath=Destination
11	hold in a quote	infinitive		your useless tongue					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme
12	deceive in a quote	can	you	others					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Patient
13	not know in a quote	present · do-support	others	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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