The Aesop for Children, The Bundle of Sticks, sentence 9

But if you are divided among yourselves, you will be no stronger than a single stick in that bundle."

Who acts: you · What happens: divide, not be · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bundle of Sticks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 stronger	cc
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 divided	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 divided	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 divided	aux:pass
5	divided	divide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 stronger	advcl
6	among	among	ADP	_	7 yourselves	case
7	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 divided	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 divided	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 stronger	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 stronger	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 stronger	cop
12	no	no	ADV	_	13 stronger	advmod
13	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
14	than	than	ADP	_	17 stick	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stick	det
16	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stick	amod
17	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stronger	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 bundle	case
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 bundle	det
20	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stick	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 stronger	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 stronger	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	divide a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		you				among yourselves	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	not is	future	you					than a single stick in that bundle; strong 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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