Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 19

You provide wool to make garments for all other men, but you destroy the clothes of him who feeds you.”

Who acts: You, clothes · What happens: provide, make, destroy, feed · To what, where: wool, garments, clothes, you

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, clothes), 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	2 provide	nsubj
2	provide	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wool	wool	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 provide	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 make	mark
5	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 provide	advcl
6	garments	garment	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 men	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 men	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 men	amod
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 make	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 destroy	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 destroy	cc
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 destroy	nsubj
14	destroy	destroy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 provide	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 clothes	det
16	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	14 destroy	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 clothes	nmod
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 feeds	nsubj
20	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 clothes	acl:relcl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 feeds	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 provide	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 provide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	provide	present	You	wool			vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition wool=Theme
2	make	to-infinitive	You not said here	garments		for all other men	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent garment=Product for man=Beneficiary
3	destroy	present	you	the clothes of cloak			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient
4	feed	present	the clothes of cloak		you		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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