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title: Hercules will not help unless you make some effort to help yourself." — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Hercules will not help unless you make some effort to help yourself." Who acts: Hercules, you. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, Hercules and the Wagoner, sentence 8

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Hercules will not help unless you make some effort to help yourself."

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**Who acts:** Hercules, you · **What happens:** not help, make, help · **To what, where:** effort, yourself

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hercules, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg19994:11:8
# text = Hercules will not help unless you make some effort to help yourself."
1	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	_
12	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **help** | future | Hercules |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | some effort |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product |
| 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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