Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 92

“That is the very reason why we must the more kill you,” they replied; “for when you wake your neighbors, you entirely put an end to our business.”

Who acts: That, we, Thieves, you · What happens: be, kill, reply, wake, put · To what, where: reason, you, more kill, neighbors, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, we, Thieves, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 reason	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 reason	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 reason	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reason	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 reason	advmod
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	12 kill	advmod
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 kill	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 kill	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kill	det
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 kill	amod
12	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reason	nmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 kill	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 you	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 kill	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 replied	nsubj
17	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 kill	acl:relcl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 put	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 put	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	23 wake	mark
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 wake	advmod
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 wake	nsubj
23	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 put	advcl
24	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 neighbors	nmod:poss
25	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 wake	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 wake	punct
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 put	nsubj
28	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	29 put	advmod
29	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 reason	conj
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 end	det
31	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 put	obj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 business	case
33	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 business	nmod:poss
34	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 put	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reason	punct
36	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 reason	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	That	the reason		tree rules
2	kill in a quote	must	we	you		tree rules
3	reply speech: assert	past	Thieves = thief	the more kill not said here		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent kill=Topic
4	wake in a quote	present	you	your neighbors		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neighbor=Patient
5	put in a quote	present	you	a end	to our business; entirely property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal

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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