The Aesop for Children, The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat, sentence 12
_The strong are apt to settle questions to their own advantage.
Who acts: strong · What happens: be, settle · To what, where: questions
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strong), 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 apt | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 strong | det |
| 3 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 apt | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 apt | cop |
| 5 | apt | apt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 settle | mark |
| 7 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 apt | xcomp |
| 8 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 settle | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 advantage | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 advantage | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 advantage | amod |
| 12 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 settle | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 apt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the strong | apt property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | settle | to-infinitive | the strong not said here | questions | to questions's own advantage | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme question=Location |
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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