The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Stork, sentence 8
_You are judged by the company you keep.
Who acts: company, you · What happens: judge, keep · To what, where: You, company
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (company, 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 judged | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 judged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 judged | aux:pass |
| 4 | judged | judge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 company | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 company | det |
| 7 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 judged | obl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 keep | nsubj |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 company | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 judged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | judge | present · passive | the company | You | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | you | the company not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Theme |
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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