The Aesop for Children, The Man and the Satyr, sentence 14
_The man who talks for both sides is not to be trusted by either.
Who acts: man · What happens: talk, not be · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Man and the Satyr. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | _ | 13 trusted | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trusted | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 talks | nsubj |
| 5 | talks | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 man | acl:relcl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 sides | case |
| 7 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 sides | det |
| 8 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 talks | obl |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 trusted | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 trusted | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 trusted | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 trusted | aux:pass |
| 13 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 either | case |
| 15 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 trusted | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 trusted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | present | the man | for both sides | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is | present · passive | the man | by either; trust 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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