The Aesop for Children, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, sentence 10

_Two blacks do not make a white.

Who acts: Two blacks · What happens: not make · To what, where: white

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two blacks), 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	_	3 blacks	punct
2	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 blacks	nummod
3	blacks	black	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 make	advmod
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 white	det
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 make	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	present · do-support	Two blacks	a white					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material white=Product

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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