The Aesop for Children, The Ass and His Driver, sentence 6

_They who will not listen to reason but stubbornly go their own way against the friendly advice of those who are wiser than they, are on the road to misfortune.

Who acts: heels · What happens: not listen, go, be · To what, where: own way, friendly advice

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and His Driver. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heels), 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	_	6 listen	punct
2	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 listen	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 listen	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 listen	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 listen	advmod
6	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 reason	case
8	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 listen	obl
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 go	cc
10	stubbornly	stubbornly	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 listen	conj
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 way	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 way	amod
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
15	against	against	ADP	_	18 advice	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 advice	det
17	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 advice	amod
18	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 those	case
20	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 advice	nmod
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 wiser	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 wiser	cop
23	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 those	acl:relcl
24	than	than	ADP	_	30 road	case
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 road	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 they	punct
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 road	cop
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 road	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 road	det
30	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 wiser	obl
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 misfortune	case
32	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 road	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not listen	future	heels = heel			to reason	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to reason=Theme
2	go	infinitive	heels = heel not said here	heels's own way	the friendly advice of those	stubbornly property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against advice=Location
3	is	present				wise property	tree rules
4	is	present	heels = heel			than the road; to misfortune	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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