The Aesop for Children, The Plane Tree, sentence 7
Thus ungratefully, O Jupiter, do men receive their blessings!"
Who acts: men · What happens: receive, bless · To what, where: blessings
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Plane Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 ungratefully | advmod |
| 2 | ungratefully | ungratefully | ADV | _ | 9 receive | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 ungratefully | punct |
| 4 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 5 Jupiter | case |
| 5 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ungratefully | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 ungratefully | punct |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 receive | aux |
| 8 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 receive | nsubj |
| 9 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 blessings | nmod:poss |
| 11 | blessings | blessing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 receive | obj |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 receive | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 receive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | present · do-support | men | men's blessings | ungratefully property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Theme | |||
| 2 | bless | men = man | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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