Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius, sentence 12
A famous saying of Confucius is: do not do to others what you would not want done to you.
Who acts: famous saying, you · What happens: be, not do, not want, do, say · To what, where: you, Confucius · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ancient China: paper, silk, the Silk Road and Confucius» of the history 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 (famous saying, you), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 saying | det |
| 2 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saying | amod |
| 3 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Confucius | case |
| 5 | Confucius | Confucius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saying | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 do | advmod |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 is | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 others | case |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 do | obl |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 done | obj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 want | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 want | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 want | advmod |
| 17 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 do | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 done | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a famous saying of Confucius | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not do | infinitive · do-support | a famous saying of Confucius not said here | to others | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not want | would | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | do | participle | a famous saying of Confucius not said here | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | say | Confucius | nom saying «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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:history:010-ancient-china-paper-silk-the-silk-road-and-confucius.lesson:12.
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): R6-punct-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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