The Aesop for Children, The Gnat and the Bull, sentence 7
_We are often of greater importance in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbor.
Who acts: We · What happens: be · To what, where: own eyes
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Gnat and the Bull. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 7 importance | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 importance | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 importance | cop |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 importance | advmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 importance | case |
| 6 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 importance | amod |
| 7 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyes | amod |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 importance | nmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 eyes | det |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 eyes | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 neighbor | case |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 neighbor | nmod:poss |
| 18 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eyes | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 importance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | We | our own eyes than the eyes of our neighbor | of greater importance; often 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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