The Aesop for Children, The Fisherman and the Little Fish, sentence 9

_A small gain is worth more than a large promise.

Who acts: small gain · What happens: be

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fisherman and the Little Fish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (small gain), 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	_	6 worth	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gain	det
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gain	amod
4	gain	gain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 worth	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 worth	cop
6	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 worth	obj
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 promise	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 promise	det
10	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 promise	amod
11	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 more	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 worth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a small gain					worth 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: «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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