The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Jackdaw, sentence 12
_Do not let your vanity make you overestimate your powers.
Who acts: _, vanity, you · What happens: not let, make, overestimate · To what, where: powers
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Jackdaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, vanity, 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 let | nsubj |
| 2 | Do | Do | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 let | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 let | advmod |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 vanity | nmod:poss |
| 6 | vanity | vanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | nsubj |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 let | parataxis |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 overestimate | nsubj |
| 9 | overestimate | overestimate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | xcomp |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 powers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 overestimate | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | infinitive | _ | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | make | present | your vanity | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | overestimate | present | you | your powers | vn estimate-34.2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent power=Value |
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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