The Aesop for Children, The Hare and His Ears, sentence 11
_Do not give your enemies the slightest reason to attack your reputation.
Who acts: _, your · What happens: not give, attack, repute · To what, where: enemies, reputation
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and His Ears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, your), 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 give | nsubj |
| 2 | Do | Do | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 give | advmod |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 6 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 reason | det |
| 8 | slightest | slight | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 reason | amod |
| 9 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 attack | mark |
| 11 | attack | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 reason | acl |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 reputation | nmod:poss |
| 13 | reputation | reputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attack | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give | infinitive | _ | your enemies | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Recipient reason=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attack | to-infinitive | _ not said here | your reputation | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reputation=Patient | ||||
| 3 | repute | your | nom reputation «state transitive»: 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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