Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 64

You have not hesitated to entrust your heads to a man, whom no one could employ to make even the shoes for their feet.”

Who acts: You, one · What happens: not hesitate, entrust, employ, make · To what, where: heads, man, shoes

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 (You, one), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 hesitated	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hesitated	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 hesitated	advmod
4	hesitated	hesitate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 entrust	mark
6	entrust	entrust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hesitated	xcomp
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 heads	nmod:poss
8	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 entrust	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 man	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 entrust	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 employ	punct
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 employ	obj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 employ	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 employ	aux
17	employ	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 entrust	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 make	mark
19	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 employ	xcomp
20	even	even	ADV	_	22 shoes	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 shoes	det
22	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 make	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 feet	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 feet	nmod:poss
25	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 make	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hesitated	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 hesitated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not hesitate	present · perfect	You				tree rules
2	entrust	to-infinitive	You not said here	your heads	a man		vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent head=Theme to man=Recipient
3	employ	could	no one				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme clause=Attribute
4	make	to-infinitive	no one not said here	the shoes		for shoes's feet	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent shoe=Material for foot=Beneficiary

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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