The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lamb, sentence 21

_The unjust will not listen to the reasoning of the innocent.

Who acts: unjust · What happens: not listen

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 (unjust), 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 listen	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 unjust	det
3	unjust	unjust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 listen	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 listen	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 listen	advmod
6	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 reasoning	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 reasoning	det
9	reasoning	reasoning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 listen	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 innocent	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 innocent	det
12	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 reasoning	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not listen	future	the unjust					to the reasoning of the innocent	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to reasoning=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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