Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 130
Count the cost before you commit yourselves.
Who acts: you · What happens: count, commit · To what, where: cost, yourselves
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 (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 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cost | det |
| 3 | cost | cost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Count | obj |
| 4 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 6 commit | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 commit | nsubj |
| 6 | commit | commit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | advcl |
| 7 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 commit | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | imperative | you not said here | the cost | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cost=Theme | ||||
| 2 | commit | present | you | yourselves | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme |
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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