Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together, sentence 10

Plato told of the ring of Gyges, which made its wearer invisible, and asked whether you would still be honest if nobody could ever see you.

Who acts: Plato, Gyges, you, nobody · What happens: tell, make, ask, be, see · To what, where: wearer, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Why honesty matters: trust holds everything together» of the religion ethics 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 (Plato, Gyges, you, nobody), 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	Plato	Plato	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 ring	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ring	det
5	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Gyges	case
7	Gyges	Gyges	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ring	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 made	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 made	nsubj
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 Gyges	acl:relcl
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wearer	nmod:poss
12	wearer	wearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
13	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 made	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 asked	cc
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
17	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	22 honest	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 honest	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 honest	aux
20	still	still	ADV	_	22 honest	advmod
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 honest	cop
22	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 asked	ccomp
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 see	mark
24	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 see	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 see	aux
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 see	advmod
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 honest	advcl
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 see	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Plato			of the ring of Gyges	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	past	Gyges	ring's wearer		invisible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wearer=Product
3	ask speech: ask	past	Plato not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	would	you		still	honest property	tree rules
5	see a condition, not said to happen	could	nobody	you	ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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:religion-ethics:081-why-honesty-matters-trust-holds-everything-together.lesson:10.

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): no change. 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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