Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 66
“Allow them,” said Jupiter, “to enjoy an empty honour and to assume the badge of your nobler sex, so long as they are not your equals in strength or courage.”
Who acts: Jupiter, Beards, your · What happens: allow, say, enjoy, assume, not be, badge · To what, where: Beards, empty honour, badge, strength, nobler sex · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jupiter, Beards, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Allow | punct |
| 2 | Allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Allow | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Allow | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Allow | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 enjoy | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 enjoy | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 enjoy | mark |
| 11 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | parataxis |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 honour | det |
| 13 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 honour | amod |
| 14 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enjoy | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 assume | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 assume | mark |
| 17 | assume | assume | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 enjoy | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 badge | det |
| 19 | badge | badge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 assume | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sex | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sex | nmod:poss |
| 22 | nobler | noble | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 sex | amod |
| 23 | sex | sex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 badge | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 long | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 long | advmod |
| 26 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 assume | advmod |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 32 equals | case |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 equals | nsubj |
| 29 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 equals | cop |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 equals | advmod |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 equals | nmod:poss |
| 32 | equals | equal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 long | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 strength | case |
| 34 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 equals | nmod |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 courage | cc |
| 36 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 strength | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow in a quote | infinitive | Beards = beard | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Jupiter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | enjoy in a quote | to-infinitive | a empty honour | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer honour=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | assume in a quote | to-infinitive | the badge of your nobler sex | long property | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent badge=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not is in a quote | present | Beards = beard | strength or courage | as your equals | tree rules | |||
| 6 | badge in a quote | your nobler sex | nom badge «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | sex in a quote | your | nom sex «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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