The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Cranes, sentence 20

_Bluff is no proof that hard fists are lacking.

Who acts: Bluff, hard fists · What happens: be, lack · To what, where: proof

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Cranes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bluff, hard fists), 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 Bluff	punct
2	Bluff	bluff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 proof	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 proof	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 proof	det
5	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 lacking	mark
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fists	amod
8	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 lacking	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 lacking	aux
10	lacking	lack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 proof	acl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 proof	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bluff	no proof					tree rules
2	lack	present · progressive	hard fists	no proof not said here					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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