Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 89

He said to her, “If your sister wishes for rain, and you for dry weather, with which of the two am I to join my wishes?”

Who acts: sun, sister, two, my · What happens: say, wish, be, join · To what, where: gardener, wishes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sun, sister, two, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wishes	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 wishes	punct
7	If	if	SCONJ	_	10 wishes	mark
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sister	nmod:poss
9	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wishes	nsubj
10	wishes	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 said	conj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 rain	case
12	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wishes	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 you	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 you	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 wishes	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 weather	case
17	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 weather	amod
18	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wishes	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 join	punct
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 join	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 two	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 two	det
24	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 join	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 two	cop
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 join	nsubj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 join	mark
28	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wishes	conj
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 wishes	nmod:poss
30	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 join	obj
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 join	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 join	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	sun		gardener		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
2	wish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	your sister			for rain; for dry weather	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for rain=Theme
3	is in a quote	present				of the two	tree rules
4	join in a quote	to-infinitive	the two	my wishes			vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent wish=Patient with which=Co-Patient
5	wish in a quote		my				nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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