Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet, sentence 11
In Aesop's fable, the honest woodcutter said only the iron axe was his and was given all three; a greedy neighbour claimed the golden one and lost his own; fables are invented stories with a lesson.
Who acts: honest woodcutter, greedy neighbour, fables · What happens: say, be, claim, lose · To what, where: fable, golden one, own · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Honesty with money: too much change and the found wallet» 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 (honest woodcutter, greedy neighbour, fables), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 fable | case |
| 2 | Aesop | Aesop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fable | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Aesop | case |
| 4 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fable | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woodcutter | det |
| 7 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woodcutter | amod |
| 8 | woodcutter | woodcutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 axe | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 axe | det |
| 12 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 axe | amod |
| 13 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 his | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 given | cop |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 given | cc |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 given | aux:pass |
| 18 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 his | conj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 three | det |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 given | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 claimed | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 neighbour | det |
| 23 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 neighbour | amod |
| 24 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 claimed | nsubj |
| 25 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 one | det |
| 27 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 one | amod |
| 28 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 claimed | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 lost | cc |
| 30 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 claimed | conj |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 own | nmod:poss |
| 32 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 lost | obj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 invented | punct |
| 34 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 invented | nsubj |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 invented | cop |
| 36 | invented | invent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 stories | amod |
| 37 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 lost | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 lesson | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 lesson | det |
| 40 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 stories | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the honest woodcutter | Aesop's fable | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in fable=Manner | ||||
| 2 | is | past · passive | the honest woodcutter not said here | give property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | claim speech: other | past | a greedy neighbour | the golden one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic | ||||
| 4 | lose | past | a greedy neighbour not said here | neighbour's own | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | is | present | fables | invent property | tree rules |
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:095-honesty-with-money-too-much-change-and-the-found-wallet.lesson:11.
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): R8-pos-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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