The Aesop for Children, The Frog and the Mouse, sentence 15

_Those who seek to harm others often come to harm themselves through their own deceit.

Who acts: Those · What happens: seek, harm, come · To what, where: others, own deceit

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frog and the Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Those), 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 Those	punct
2	Those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 come	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 seek	nsubj
4	seek	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Those	acl:relcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 harm	mark
6	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 seek	xcomp
7	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 harm	obj
8	often	often	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 harm	mark
11	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 come	xcomp
12	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 harm	obj
13	through	through	ADP	_	16 deceit	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 deceit	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 deceit	amod
16	deceit	deceit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 harm	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seek	present					tree rules
2	harm not said to happen	to-infinitive		others			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus other=Experiencer
3	come	present	Those			often property	tree rules
4	harm	to-infinitive	Those not said here	others = other	others's own deceit		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus themselves=Experiencer

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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