The Aesop for Children, The Wolves and the Sheep, sentence 9
_Do not give up friends for foes.
Who acts: _ · What happens: not give up · To what, where: friends
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolves and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_), 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 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 give | compound:prt |
| 6 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | iobj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 foes | case |
| 8 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 give | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give up | infinitive | _ | friends | for foes | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Source |
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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