Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 126
No one can be a friend if you know not whether to trust or distrust him.
Who acts: one, you · What happens: be, not know, trust, distrust · To what, where: friend, Fox · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 friend | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 friend | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 friend | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 friend | det |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 know | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 friend | advcl |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 know | advmod |
| 11 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 13 trust | mark |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 trust | mark |
| 13 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 know | ccomp |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 distrust | cc |
| 15 | distrust | distrust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 trust | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 distrust | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 friend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | can | no one | a friend | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | trust | to-infinitive | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | distrust | infinitive | Fox | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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