Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 93

I know whom I may bully and whom I must flatter; and I thus prolong my life to a good old age.”

Who acts: I · What happens: know, bully, flatter, prolong · To what, where: life · 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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 bully	obj
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 bully	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bully	aux
6	bully	bully	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 know	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 flatter	cc
8	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 flatter	obj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 flatter	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 flatter	aux
11	flatter	flatter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bully	conj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 prolong	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 prolong	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 prolong	nsubj
15	thus	thus	ADV	_	16 prolong	advmod
16	prolong	prolong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 know	conj
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 life	nmod:poss
18	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 prolong	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	23 age	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 age	det
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 age	amod
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 age	amod
23	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 prolong	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct
25	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	bully	may	I				vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Beneficiary
3	flatter	must	I				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus whom=Experiencer
4	prolong	present	I	my life	to a good old age	thus property	vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent life=Theme

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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