--- title: Jupiter made answer: “You have only to thank yourselves for the misf… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: Jupiter made answer: “You have only to thank yourselves for the misfortunes to which you are exposed: for if you did not make such excellent pillars and posts, and prove yourselves so serviceable to the carpenters and the farmers, the axe would not so frequently be laid to your roots.” Who acts: Jup --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/10/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Three hundred Aesop’s fables](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/) / [Aesop’s Fables, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/10/) / 28 # Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 28 Jupiter made answer: “You have only to thank yourselves for the misfortunes to which you are exposed: for if you did not make such excellent pillars and posts, and prove yourselves so serviceable to the carpenters and the farmers, the axe would not so frequently be laid to your roots.” **Who acts:** Jupiter, You, carpenters · **What happens:** make, have, thank, expose, not make, prove · **To what, where:** answer, yourselves, you, misfortunes, such excellent pillars, axe This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jupiter, You, carpenters), 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:pg21:10:28 # text = Jupiter made answer: “You have only to thank yourselves for the misfortunes to which you are exposed: for if you did not make such excellent pillars and posts, and prove yourselves so serviceable to the carpenters and the farmers, the axe would not so frequently be laid to your roots.” 1 Jupiter Jupiter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 5 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 only only ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 thank thank VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 11 yourselves yourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 10 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 misfortunes misfortune NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 to to ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 obl _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 exposed expose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 21 for for SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 24 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 parataxis _ _ 27 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 excellent excellent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 pillars pillar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 posts post NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 35 yourselves yourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 34 obj _ _ 36 so so ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 serviceable serviceable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 xcomp _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 carpenters carpenter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 farmers farmer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj:pass _ _ 47 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 48 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 52 advmod _ _ 49 so so ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 50 frequently frequently ADV RB _ 52 advmod _ _ 51 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 52 aux:pass _ _ 52 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl _ _ 53 to to ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 55 nmod:poss _ _ 55 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 57 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Jupiter | answer | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | You | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | yourselves | | | | for the misfortunes | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme for misfortune=Attribute | | 4 | **expose** *in a quote* | present · passive | | you | the misfortunes | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to which=Recipient | | 5 | **not** **make** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · do-support | you | such excellent pillars and posts | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pillar=Product | | 6 | **prove** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | yourselves | | | | serviceable *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme | | 7 | **not** **lay** *in a quote* | would · passive | the carpenters and the farmers *not said here* | the axe | | | | to your roots; frequently *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/10/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/10/29/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/10/)