Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 63
If words suffice not, blows must follow.
Who acts: words, blows · What happens: not suffice, follow
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (words, blows), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 suffice | mark |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 suffice | nsubj |
| 3 | suffice | suffice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 follow | advcl |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 suffice | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 suffice | punct |
| 6 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 follow | nsubj |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 follow | aux |
| 8 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not suffice a condition, not said to happen | present | words | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | follow | must | blows | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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