Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 24

They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to others.

Who acts: heads · What happens: not be, give · To what, where: credit, heads

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heads), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wise	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wise	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 wise	advmod
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 give	nsubj
6	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wise	parataxis
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 themselves	case
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 give	obl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 credit	det
10	credit	credit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
11	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	13 others	case
12	to	to	ADP	_	11 due	fixed
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 give	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	heads = head					wise property	tree rules
2	give	present		the credit	heads = head			due others	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent credit=Theme to themselves=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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