Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 62

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

Who acts: you, remedy · What happens: avoid, be · To what, where: remedy

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, remedy), 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	Avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 remedy	det
3	remedy	remedy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Avoid	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 worse	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 worse	cop
6	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 remedy	acl:relcl
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 disease	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 disease	det
9	disease	disease	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worse	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Avoid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	avoid	imperative	you not said here	a remedy					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent remedy=Location
2	is	present	a remedy					than the disease; bad property	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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