The Aesop for Children, The Ass Carrying the Image, sentence 7
The honor is not meant for you but for the image you are carrying."
Who acts: you · What happens: not mean, carry · To what, where: honor
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass Carrying the Image. 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 honor | det |
| 2 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 meant | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 meant | aux:pass |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 meant | advmod |
| 5 | meant | mean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 meant | obl |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 carrying | cc |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 image | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 image | det |
| 11 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carrying | obl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 carrying | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 carrying | aux |
| 14 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 meant | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 carrying | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 carrying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not mean | present · passive | the honor | for you | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for you=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | carry | present · progressive | you | for the image | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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