Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 43
Misfortunes springing from ourselves are the hardest to bear.
Who acts: Misfortunes · What happens: spring, be, bear
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Misfortunes), 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 | Misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hardest | nsubj |
| 2 | springing | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Misfortunes | acl |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 ourselves | case |
| 4 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 springing | obl |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hardest | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hardest | det |
| 7 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 bear | mark |
| 9 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hardest | acl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hardest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | gerund | Misfortunes not said here | from ourselves | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from ourselves=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Misfortunes | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bear | to-infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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