Lies that do real harm, sentence 9

Never accuse someone of something you have not seen and cannot prove; a false accusation can damage a person's name for a long time.

Who acts: you, false accusation, person · What happens: not accuse, not see, not prove, damage, name · To what, where: someone, name

This is a sentence of the lesson «Lies that do real harm» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, false accusation, person), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 accuse	advmod
2	accuse	accuse	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 accuse	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 something	case
5	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 someone	nmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 seen	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 seen	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 seen	advmod
9	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 something	acl:relcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 prove	cc
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 prove	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 prove	advmod
13	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 seen	conj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 damage	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 accusation	det
16	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 accusation	amod
17	accusation	accusation	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 damage	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 damage	aux
19	damage	damage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 accuse	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 person	det
21	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 name	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 person	case
23	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 damage	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 time	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 time	det
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 time	amod
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 damage	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 accuse	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	not accuse	imperative	you not said here	someone		vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent someone=Theme
2	not see	present · perfect	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	not prove	can	you not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	damage	can	a false accusation	a person's name	time	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient
5	name		a person			nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:197-harmful-lies.lesson:9.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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