The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lion, sentence 9
_What is evil won is evil lost.
Who acts: evil won · What happens: be, lose
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evil won), 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 | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 evil | cop |
| 4 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 won | amod |
| 5 | won | won | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 evil | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 evil | cop |
| 7 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 What | acl:relcl |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 evil | csubj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | evil won | evil property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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