The Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones, sentence 16

When a man decides to do his own work and not depend on any one else, then you may be sure there will be no more delay."

Who acts: man, you · What happens: decide, do, not depend, be, work · To what, where: own work, sure more delay

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lark and Her Young Ones. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 decides	mark
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 decides	nsubj
4	decides	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 delay	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 decides	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 work	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 work	amod
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 depend	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 depend	advmod
12	depend	depend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 do	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 one	case
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 depend	obl
16	else	else	ADV	_	15 one	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 decides	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 sure	advmod
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 sure	nsubj
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 sure	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 sure	cop
22	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 delay	amod
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 be	expl
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 be	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 delay	cop
26	no	no	ADV	_	27 more	advmod
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 delay	amod
28	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 delay	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 delay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	decide	present	a man				vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	a man not said here	man's own work			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
3	not depend	infinitive	a man not said here			on any one	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on one=Theme
4	is	may	you		then	sure property	tree rules
5	is a	imperative	you not said here	sure more delay			tree rules
6	work		man				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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