Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 52
But I shall not have to wait long for my just revenge; for if you now should crop my leaves, and cut me down to my root, I shall provide the wine to pour over you when you are led as a victim to the sacrifice.”
Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: not have, wait, crop, cut down, provide, pour · To what, where: leaves, me, wine, you, sacrifice
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, my), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 have | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 have | advmod |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 wait | mark |
| 7 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 have | xcomp |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 wait | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 revenge | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 revenge | nmod:poss |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 revenge | advmod |
| 12 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wait | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 crop | punct |
| 14 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 crop | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 crop | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 crop | nsubj |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 crop | advmod |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 crop | aux |
| 19 | crop | crop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wait | conj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 leaves | nmod:poss |
| 21 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 crop | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cut | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cut | cc |
| 24 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 have | parataxis |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 cut | obj |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 cut | compound:prt |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 root | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 root | nmod:poss |
| 29 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cut | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 provide | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 provide | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 provide | aux |
| 33 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 cut | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 wine | det |
| 35 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 provide | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 pour | mark |
| 37 | pour | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 provide | advcl |
| 38 | over | over | ADP | _ | 39 you | case |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 pour | obl |
| 40 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 led | advmod |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 led | nsubj |
| 42 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 led | aux:pass |
| 43 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 pour | advcl |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 46 victim | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 victim | det |
| 46 | victim | victim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 led | obl |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 sacrifice | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 sacrifice | det |
| 49 | sacrifice | sacrifice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 led | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | shall | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wait | to-infinitive | I not said here | for my revenge; long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | crop a condition, not said to happen | should | you | my leaves | now | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | |||
| 4 | cut down | infinitive | me | to my root result | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent i=Patient to root=Result | ||||
| 5 | provide | shall | I | the wine | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition wine=Theme | ||||
| 6 | pour | to-infinitive | I not said here | over you | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over you=Location | ||||
| 7 | lead | present · passive | you | the sacrifice | as a victim | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to sacrifice=Destination | |||
| 8 | revenge | my | nom revenge «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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