The Aesop for Children, The Leap At Rhodes, sentence 8
_Deeds count, not boasting words.
Who acts: Deeds · What happens: count, boast · To what, where: boasting words
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Leap At Rhodes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Deeds), 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 | _ | 2 Deeds | punct |
| 2 | Deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 count | nsubj |
| 3 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 words | punct |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 words | advmod |
| 6 | boasting | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 words | amod |
| 7 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 count | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | present | Deeds | boasting words | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | boast speech: other | gerund | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=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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