Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 79
We must make friends in prosperity if we would have their help in adversity.
Who acts: We, gods · What happens: make, have, help · To what, where: friends, prosperity, help, adversity
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, gods), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 prosperity | case |
| 6 | prosperity | prosperity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obl |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 have | aux |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | advcl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 help | nmod:poss |
| 12 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 adversity | case |
| 14 | adversity | adversity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | must | We | friends | prosperity | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product | |||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | would | we | gods's help | adversity | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Patient | |||
| 3 | help | gods = god | nom help «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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