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title: "Do not expect us to join your flock," replied one of the Wild Goats… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "Do not expect us to join your flock," replied one of the Wild Goats. " Who acts: you, us. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goatherd and the Wild Goats, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Goatherd and the Wild Goats, sentence 6

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"Do not expect us to join your flock," replied one of the Wild Goats. "

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**Who acts:** you, us · **What happens:** not expect, join, reply · **To what, where:** us, flock, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goatherd and the Wild Goats. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us), 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:pg19994:87:6
# text = "Do not expect us to join your flock," replied one of the Wild Goats. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	expect	expect	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	flock	flock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Goats	Goat	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **expect** *in a quote* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **join** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | us *not said here* | your flock |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Patient |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | one of the Wild Goats |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic |

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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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