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title: Goad on your bullocks, and never more pray to me for help, until you… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Goad on your bullocks, and never more pray to me for help, until you have done your best to help yourself, or depend upon it you will henceforth pray in vain.” Who acts: Goad, you. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 99

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Goad on your bullocks, and never more pray to me for help, until you have done your best to help yourself, or depend upon it you will henceforth pray in vain.”

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**Who acts:** Goad, you · **What happens:** pray, do, help, depend · **To what, where:** me, best, yourself, vain

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goad, 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:pg21:3:99
# text = Goad on your bullocks, and never more pray to me for help, until you have done your best to help yourself, or depend upon it you will henceforth pray in vain.”
1	Goad	goad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	bullocks	bullock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	pray	pray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	depend	depend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	pray	pray	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	parataxis	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pray** | present | Goad on your bullocks |  | me |  |  | for help | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for help=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | present · perfect | you | your best |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality |
| 3 | **help** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **depend** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon Goad | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pray** | future | you |  |  | vain |  | henceforth *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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:** «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.

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