The Aesop for Children, The Astrologer, sentence 10
This may teach you to pay more attention to what is right in front of you, and let the future take care of itself."
Who acts: This, future · What happens: teach, pay, be, let, take · To what, where: you, more attention, front, future, care
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Astrologer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, future), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 teach | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 teach | aux |
| 3 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 teach | iobj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 pay | mark |
| 6 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 teach | xcomp |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 attention | amod |
| 8 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pay | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 right | case |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 right | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 right | cop |
| 12 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pay | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 front | case |
| 14 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 right | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 front | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 let | cc |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 teach | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 future | det |
| 21 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 let | obj |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 23 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 itself | case |
| 25 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 take | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | may | This | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pay | to-infinitive | This not said here | more attention | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset | ||||
| 3 | is | present | front of you | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | the future | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | take | infinitive | the future not said here | care | of future | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of itself=Initial_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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