The piggy bank and a jar for each goal, sentence 3

"Pay yourself first" means you put your savings aside before you spend anything, so you cannot spend them by mistake, and a safe place keeps them from little brothers.

Who acts: you, safe place, your · What happens: pay, mean, put, spend, not spend, keep · To what, where: yourself, savings, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The piggy bank and a jar for each goal» of the money 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, safe place, your), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

character

polarity

none

teacher

changed form=decl, act=assert

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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