Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 99

Goad on your bullocks, and never more pray to me for help, until you have done your best to help yourself, or depend upon it you will henceforth pray in vain.”

Who acts: Goad, you · What happens: pray, do, help, depend · To what, where: me, best, yourself, vain

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 (Goad, you), 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	Goad	goad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pray	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 bullocks	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 bullocks	nmod:poss
4	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Goad	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pray	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 pray	cc
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 pray	advmod
9	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 me	case
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 pray	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 help	case
13	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pray	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 done	punct
15	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 done	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 done	nsubj
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 done	aux
18	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 pray	parataxis
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 best	nmod:poss
20	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 done	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 help	mark
22	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 done	advcl
23	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 help	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 depend	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 depend	cc
26	depend	depend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 help	conj
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 depend	obl
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 pray	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 pray	aux
31	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	_	32 pray	advmod
32	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 depend	parataxis
33	in	in	ADP	_	34 vain	case
34	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 pray	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 done	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	18 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	pray	present	Goad on your bullocks		me		for help	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for help=Theme
2	do	present · perfect	you	your best				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
3	help	to-infinitive	you not said here	yourself				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary
4	depend	infinitive	you not said here				upon Goad	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	pray	future	you			vain	henceforth property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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