--- title: You that executors be made, And overseers eke, Of children that be f… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: You that executors be made, And overseers eke, Of children that be fatherless, And infants mild and meek, Take you example by this thing, And yield to each his right, Lest God with suchlike misery Your wicked minds requite. Who acts: God, overseers, children, infants. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, overseers, children, infants), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg14241:25:63 # text = You that executors be made, And overseers eke, Of children that be fatherless, And infants mild and meek, Take you example by this thing, And yield to each his right, Lest God with suchlike misery Your wicked minds requite. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 executors executor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 overseers overseer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 eke eke VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 Of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 cop _ _ 15 fatherless fatherless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 And and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 infants infant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 19 mild mild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 meek meek ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 23 Take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 example example NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 And and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 yield yield NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 32 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 31 nmod _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 Lest lest SCONJ IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl:agent _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 suchlike suchlike ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 misery misery NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 42 Your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 43 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 minds mind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 nsubj _ _ 45 requite requite VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | infinitive · passive | God with suchlike misery | You | | | | yield to each *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | | 2 | **eke** | present | overseers | | | | | of children | tree rules | | 3 | **is** | infinitive | children | | | | | fatherless *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **take** | infinitive | infants | you | | | | by this thing | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Theme example=Destination | | 5 | **requite** | present | Your wicked minds | suchlike misery *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **mind** | | Your | | | | | | nom mind «cognition 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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/25/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/25/64/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/25/)