The Aesop for Children, The Ass Carrying the Image, sentence 8
_Do not try to take the credit to yourself that is due to others.
Who acts: _, that · What happens: not try, take, be · To what, where: credit, yourself
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 (_, that), 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 try | nsubj |
| 2 | Do | Do | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 try | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 try | advmod |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 take | mark |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 try | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 credit | det |
| 8 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 yourself | case |
| 10 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 take | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 due | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 due | cop |
| 13 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 6 take | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 others | case |
| 15 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 due | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not try | infinitive | _ | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | _ not said here | the credit | yourself | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent credit=Theme to yourself=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | present | that | to others; due 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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