Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 33
The dishonest, if they act honestly, get no credit.
Who acts: dishonest · What happens: act, get · To what, where: credit
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dishonest), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dishonest | det |
| 2 | dishonest | dishonest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 act | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 act | punct |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 act | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 act | nsubj |
| 6 | act | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 6 act | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 act | conj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 credit | det |
| 11 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 act | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | present | the dishonest | honestly property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | the dishonest not said here | no credit | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer credit=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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