Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 54

When the Ass persisted in his effort, the man let him go and said, “Conquer, but conquer to your cost.”

Who acts: Ass, man, friend, your · What happens: persist, let, go, say, conquer, cost · To what, where: effort, friend · 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 (Ass, man, friend, your), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 persisted	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Ass	det
3	Ass	Ass	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 persisted	nsubj
4	persisted	persist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 effort	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 effort	nmod:poss
7	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 persisted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 let	nsubj
11	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 persisted	ccomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 let	obj
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 go	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Conquer	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 Conquer	punct
18	Conquer	conquer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 conquer	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 conquer	cc
21	conquer	conquer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 let	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 cost	case
23	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 cost	nmod:poss
24	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 conquer	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	persist	past	the Ass		friend's effort		tree rules
2	let	infinitive	the man	friend			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	friend not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	friend not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	conquer in a quote	infinitive					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	conquer in a quote	infinitive	the man not said here			to your cost	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	cost in a quote		your				nom cost «possession 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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