The Aesop for Children, The Young Crab and His Mother, sentence 7
_Do not tell others how to act unless you can set a good example.
Who acts: _, others, you · What happens: not tell, act, set · To what, where: others, good example · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Young Crab and His Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, others, 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | Do | Do | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 tell | advmod |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 tell | obj |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 act | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 act | mark |
| 8 | act | act | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tell | xcomp |
| 9 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 12 set | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 set | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 set | aux |
| 12 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 act | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 example | det |
| 14 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 example | amod |
| 15 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 set | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | infinitive | _ | others | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent other=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | act not said to happen | to-infinitive | others not said here | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | set a condition, not said to happen | can | you | a good example | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient example=Result |
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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