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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

punctccompiobjpunctpunctnsubjpunctpunctmarkparataxisdetamodobjccmarkconjdetobjcasenmod:possamodnmodpunctadvmodadvmodcasensubjcopadvmodnmod:possoblcasenmodccconjpunctpunctroot“PUNCTAllowVERBthemPRON,PUNCT”PUNCTsaidVERBJupiterPROPN,PUNCT“PUNCTtoPARTenjoyVERBanDETemptyADJhonourNOUNandCCONJtoPARTassumeVERBtheDETbadgeNOUNofADPyourPRONnoblerADJsexNOUN,PUNCTsoADVlongADVasADPtheyPRONareAUXnotPARTyourPRONequalsNOUNinADPstrengthNOUNorCCONJcourageNOUN.PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_2 Allowpunct
2AllowallowVERBVerbForm=Inf6 saidccomp
3themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 Allowiobj
4,,PUNCT_2 Allowpunct
5”"PUNCT_2 Allowpunct
6saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
7JupiterJupiterPROPNNumber=Sing6 saidnsubj
8,,PUNCT_11 enjoypunct
9“"PUNCT_11 enjoypunct
10totoPART_11 enjoymark
11enjoyenjoyVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin6 saidparataxis
12anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art14 honourdet
13emptyemptyADJDegree=Pos14 honouramod
14honourhonourNOUNNumber=Sing11 enjoyobj
15andandCCONJ_17 assumecc
16totoPART_17 assumemark
17assumeassumeVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Fin11 enjoyconj
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 badgedet
19badgebadgeNOUNNumber=Sing17 assumeobj
20ofofADP_23 sexcase
21youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 sexnmod:poss
22noblernobleADJDegree=Cmp23 sexamod
23sexsexNOUNNumber=Sing19 badgenmod
24,,PUNCT_26 longpunct
25sosoADV_26 longadvmod
26longlongADVDegree=Pos17 assumeadvmod
27asasADP_32 equalscase
28theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs32 equalsnsubj
29arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin32 equalscop
30notnotPARTPolarity=Neg32 equalsadvmod
31youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs32 equalsnmod:poss
32equalsequalNOUNNumber=Plur26 longobl
33ininADP_34 strengthcase
34strengthstrengthNOUNNumber=Sing32 equalsnmod
35ororCCONJ_36 couragecc
36couragecourageNOUNNumber=Sing34 strengthconj
37..PUNCT_6 saidpunct
38”"PUNCT_6 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1allow in a quoteinfinitiveBeards = beardvn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary
2say speech: assertpastJupitervn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3enjoy in a quoteto-infinitivea empty honourvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer honour=Stimulus
4assume in a quoteto-infinitivethe badge of your nobler sexlong propertyvn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent badge=Theme
5not is in a quotepresentBeards = beardstrength or courageas your equalstree rules
6badge in a quoteyour nobler sexnom badge «communication transitive»: of=patient
7sex in a quoteyournom 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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