The Aesop for Children, The Quack Toad, sentence 9

_Those who would mend others, should first mend themselves.

Who acts: Those · What happens: mend · To what, where: others

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Quack Toad. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Those), 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 Those	punct
2	Those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 mend	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 mend	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 mend	aux
5	mend	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Those	acl:relcl
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mend	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Those	punct
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 mend	aux
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 mend	advmod
10	mend	mend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 mend	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 mend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mend	would		others					tree rules
2	mend	should	Those	others = other				first 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.

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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