Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 88

Be on guard against men who can strike from a distance.

Who acts: you, men · What happens: be, strike · To what, where: guard

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, men), 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	Be	be	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 guard	case
3	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Be	obl
4	against	against	ADP	_	5 men	case
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 guard	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 strike	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 strike	aux
8	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 men	acl:relcl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 distance	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 distance	det
11	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strike	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Be	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	imperative	you not said here			guard against men			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on guard=Location
2	strike	can	men					from a distance	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

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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