The Aesop for Children, The Dog in the Manger, sentence 8
_Do not grudge others what you cannot enjoy yourself.
Who acts: _, you · What happens: not grudge, not enjoy · To what, where: others, yourself
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog in the Manger. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, 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 grudge | nsubj |
| 2 | Do | Do | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grudge | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 grudge | advmod |
| 4 | grudge | grudge | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grudge | obj |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 enjoy | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 enjoy | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 enjoy | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 enjoy | advmod |
| 10 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 grudge | parataxis |
| 11 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 enjoy | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grudge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not grudge | infinitive | _ | others | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not enjoy | can | you | yourself | tree rules |
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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