Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside, sentence 7

The Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius kept a private notebook, the Meditations, to be honest with himself; an honest diary helps you see both sides.

Who acts: Roman emperor, honest diary, you · What happens: keep, be, help, see · To what, where: private notebook, sides

This is a sentence of the lesson «Honest with yourself: excuses, pride and the truth inside» 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 (Roman emperor, honest diary, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 emperor	det
2	Roman	roman	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 emperor	amod
3	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
4	Marcus	Marcus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 emperor	appos
5	Aurelius	Aurelius	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Marcus	flat
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 notebook	det
8	private	private	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 notebook	amod
9	notebook	notebook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kept	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Meditations	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Meditations	det
12	Meditations	meditation	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 notebook	appos
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 honest	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	16 honest	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 honest	cop
16	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kept	advcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 himself	case
18	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 honest	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 helps	punct
20	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 diary	det
21	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 diary	amod
22	diary	diary	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 helps	nsubj
23	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 kept	parataxis
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 see	nsubj
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 helps	xcomp
26	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	27 sides	det
27	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 see	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the Roman emperor	a private notebook		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notebook=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive	the Roman emperor not said here		with emperor; honest property	tree rules
3	help	present	a honest diary			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	see	infinitive	you	both sides		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer side=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:098-honest-with-yourself-excuses-pride-and-the-truth-inside.lesson:7.

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, 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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