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title: If the Farmer said he would call in his neighbors and friends to hel… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: If the Farmer said he would call in his neighbors and friends to help him do his work, this wheat will not be reaped for a while yet." Who acts: Farmer, he, him, his. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lark and Her Young Ones, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones, sentence 9

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If the Farmer said he would call in his neighbors and friends to help him do his work, this wheat will not be reaped for a while yet."

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**Who acts:** Farmer, he, him, his · **What happens:** say, call, help, do, not reap, work · **To what, where:** neighbors, him, work, wheat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lark and Her Young Ones. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Farmer, he, him, his), 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:pg19994:130:9
# text = If the Farmer said he would call in his neighbors and friends to help him do his work, this wheat will not be reaped for a while yet."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	reaped	reap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the Farmer |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **call** | would | he |  |  | his neighbors and friends |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | he *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | infinitive | him *= he* *not said here* | his work |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 5 | **not** **reap** | future · passive |  | this wheat |  |  | yet; while |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **work** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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