Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 26

In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

Who acts: you, your · What happens: serve, expect, be, escape, pain · To what, where: wicked, reward, injury

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	In	in	SCONJ	_	2 serving	mark
2	serving	serve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 expect	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wicked	det
4	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 serving	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 serving	punct
6	expect	expect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 reward	det
8	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 expect	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thankful	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 thankful	cc
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 thankful	cop
12	thankful	thankful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 expect	parataxis
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 escape	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 escape	nsubj
15	escape	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 thankful	advcl
16	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 escape	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 pains	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 pains	nmod:poss
19	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 escape	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 expect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	serve	gerund	you not said here	the wicked		vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wicked=Attribute
2	expect	imperative	you not said here	no reward		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme
3	is	infinitive			thankful property	tree rules
4	escape a condition, not said to happen	present	you	injury	for your pains	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme injury=Initial_Location
5	pain		your			nom pain «state 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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