The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 32
_The weak are made to suffer for the misdeeds of the powerful.
Who acts: weak · What happens: make, suffer · To what, where: weak
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Animals and the Plague. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weak), 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 made | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 weak | det |
| 3 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | aux:pass |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 suffer | mark |
| 7 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 made | xcomp |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 misdeeds | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 misdeeds | det |
| 10 | misdeeds | misdeed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 suffer | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 powerful | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 powerful | det |
| 13 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 misdeeds | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | the weak | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | suffer | to-infinitive | the weak not said here | for the misdeeds of the powerful | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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