The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lamb, sentence 19
_The tyrant can always find an excuse for his tyranny.
Who acts: tyrant · What happens: find · To what, where: excuse
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Lamb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tyrant), 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 find | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tyrant | det |
| 3 | tyrant | tyrant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | aux |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 find | advmod |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 excuse | det |
| 8 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 tyranny | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tyranny | nmod:poss |
| 11 | tyranny | tyranny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 excuse | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | can | the tyrant | a excuse | for tyrant's tyranny; always property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent excuse=Theme for tyranny=Beneficiary |
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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