Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 75
Old friends cannot with impunity be sacrificed for new ones.
What happens: sacrifice · To what, where: Old friends
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: 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 friends | amod |
| 2 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sacrificed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 sacrificed | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 impunity | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 impunity | case |
| 6 | impunity | impunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sacrificed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 sacrificed | aux:pass |
| 8 | sacrificed | sacrifice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 ones | case |
| 10 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 ones | amod |
| 11 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sacrificed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sacrificed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sacrifice | can · passive | Old friends | for new ones | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
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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