The Aesop for Children, The Mule, sentence 8

_Be sure of your pedigree before you boast of it.

Who acts: you · What happens: be, boast

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mule. 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	_	_	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct
2	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 pedigree	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 pedigree	nmod:poss
6	pedigree	pedigree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sure	obl
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 boast	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 boast	nsubj
9	boast	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	ccomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 boast	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					of your pedigree; sure property	tree rules
2	boast speech: other	present	you					of pedigree	vn complain-37.8 «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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