The Aesop for Children, The Bear and the Bees, sentence 8

_It is wiser to bear a single injury in silence than to provoke a thousand by flying into a rage.

Who acts: It · What happens: be, bear, provoke, fly · To what, where: single injury, silence, thousand, rage

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bear and the Bees. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It), 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	_	4 wiser	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wiser	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wiser	cop
4	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 bear	mark
6	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wiser	xcomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 injury	det
8	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 injury	amod
9	injury	injury	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bear	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 silence	case
11	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bear	obl
12	than	than	SCONJ	_	14 provoke	mark
13	to	to	PART	_	14 provoke	mark
14	provoke	provoke	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bear	advcl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 thousand	det
16	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 provoke	obj
17	by	by	SCONJ	_	18 flying	mark
18	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 provoke	advcl
19	into	into	ADP	_	21 rage	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 rage	det
21	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flying	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wiser	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	It			wise property	tree rules
2	bear	to-infinitive		a single injury	silence		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injury=Patient
3	provoke	to-infinitive		a thousand			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thousand=Experiencer
4	fly	gerund				into a rage result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into rage=Result

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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