Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 42
Say ‘I,’ not ‘We’ are undone.”
Who acts: you · What happens: say, not undo · To what, where: I, We · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 I | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Say | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 undone | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 undone | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 undone | advmod |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 undone | punct |
| 8 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 undone | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 We | punct |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 undone | aux:pass |
| 11 | undone | undo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Say | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not undo | present · passive | We | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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