The Aesop for Children, The Wolf and the Lean Dog, sentence 19
_Do not depend on the promises of those whose interest it is to deceive you.
Who acts: _, interest · What happens: not depend, be, promise · To what, where: those
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Wolf and the Lean Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, interest), 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 depend | nsubj |
| 2 | Do | Do | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 depend | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 depend | advmod |
| 4 | depend | depend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 promises | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 promises | det |
| 7 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 depend | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 those | case |
| 9 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 promises | nmod |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 interest | nmod:poss |
| 11 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 those | obj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 deceive | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 deceive | cop |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 deceive | mark |
| 15 | deceive | deceive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 depend | parataxis |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 deceive | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 depend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not depend | infinitive | _ | on the promises of those | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on promise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | interest | deceive property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | promise | those | nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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