The Aesop for Children, The Goatherd and the Wild Goats, sentence 8
_It is unwise to treat old friends badly for the sake of new ones.
Who acts: thanks · What happens: be, treat · To what, where: old friends
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goatherd and the Wild Goats. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thanks), 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 | _ | 4 unwise | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 unwise | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 unwise | cop |
| 4 | unwise | unwise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 treat | mark |
| 6 | treat | treat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 unwise | advcl |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 friends | amod |
| 8 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 treat | obj |
| 9 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 treat | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 sake | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sake | det |
| 12 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 treat | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ones | case |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ones | amod |
| 15 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sake | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unwise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | thanks | unwise property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | treat | to-infinitive | thanks not said here | old friends | for the sake of new ones; badly property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient |
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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