The Aesop for Children, The Rose and the Butterfly, sentence 15
_Do not expect constancy in others if you have none yourself.
Who acts: _, you · What happens: not expect, have · To what, where: constancy, others, none
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rose and the Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, you), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 expect | nsubj |
| 2 | Do | Do | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 expect | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 expect | advmod |
| 4 | expect | expect | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | constancy | constancy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 expect | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 others | case |
| 7 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 expect | obl |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 expect | advcl |
| 11 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 10 have | obj |
| 12 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 none | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not expect | infinitive | _ | constancy | others | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent constancy=Theme | |||
| 2 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | you | none | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Patient |
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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