Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 49
There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.
Who acts: believing liar, liar · What happens: be, believe, speak · To what, where: truth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (believing liar, liar), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 liar | det |
| 4 | believing | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 liar | amod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 liar | det |
| 6 | liar | liar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 speaks | punct |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 speaks | advmod |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 speaks | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 speaks | nsubj |
| 11 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 truth | det |
| 13 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 speaks | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no believing liar | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | believe | gerund | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | liar | the truth | tree rules |
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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