Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 93
The safeguards of virtue are hateful to those with evil intentions.
Who acts: safeguards · What happens: be, safeguard · To what, where: virtue
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (safeguards), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 safeguards | det |
| 2 | safeguards | safeguard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hateful | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 virtue | case |
| 4 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 safeguards | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hateful | cop |
| 6 | hateful | hateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 those | case |
| 8 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 hateful | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 intentions | case |
| 10 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 intentions | amod |
| 11 | intentions | intention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 those | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hateful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the safeguards of virtue | to those; hateful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | safeguard | virtue | nom safeguard «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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