The Aesop for Children, The Miser, sentence 19
_A possession is worth no more than the use we make of it.
Who acts: possession, we · What happens: be, make · To what, where: use
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miser. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (possession, we), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 worth | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 possession | det |
| 3 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 worth | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 worth | cop |
| 5 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 more | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 worth | obj |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 use | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 use | det |
| 10 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 worth | obl |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 make | nsubj |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 use | acl:relcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 make | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a possession | than the use; worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | present | we | the use not said here | of possession | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Product |
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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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