The Aesop for Children, The Peacock, sentence 10
_Do not sacrifice your freedom for the sake of pomp and show.
Who acts: _ · What happens: not sacrifice · To what, where: freedom
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Peacock. 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 sacrifice | nsubj |
| 2 | Do | Do | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sacrifice | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 sacrifice | advmod |
| 4 | sacrifice | sacrifice | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 freedom | nmod:poss |
| 6 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sacrifice | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 sake | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sake | det |
| 9 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sacrifice | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 pomp | case |
| 11 | pomp | pomp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sake | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 show | cc |
| 13 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pomp | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sacrifice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sacrifice | infinitive | _ | your freedom | for the sake of pomp and show | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent freedom=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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