The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Shepherd, sentence 4
_Men often condemn others for what they see no wrong in doing themselves.
Who acts: Men · What happens: condemn, see, do · To what, where: others, Men
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Shepherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Men | punct |
| 2 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 condemn | nsubj |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 condemn | advmod |
| 4 | condemn | condemn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 condemn | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 what | case |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 condemn | obl |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 see | nsubj |
| 9 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 10 | no | no | ADV | _ | 11 wrong | advmod |
| 11 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 see | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 doing | mark |
| 13 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 wrong | advcl |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 doing | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 condemn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | condemn | present | Men | others | often property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent other=Theme for what=Attribute | |||
| 2 | see | present | Men = man | wrong property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | do | gerund | Men = man not said here | Men = man | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Eventuality |
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.
Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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