The Aesop for Children, The Monkey and the Camel, sentence 9

_Do not try to ape your betters.

Who acts: _ · What happens: not try, ape · To what, where: betters

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Monkey and the Camel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_), 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 ape	mark
6	ape	ape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 try	xcomp
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 betters	nmod:poss
8	betters	better	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ape	obj
9	.	.	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	ape not said to happen	to-infinitive	_ not said here	your betters					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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