Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 60
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.
Who acts: Men, grievances · What happens: bear, do · To what, where: little grievances, large misfortunes
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 (Men, grievances), 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 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bear | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 bear | advmod |
| 3 | bear | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grievances | amod |
| 5 | grievances | grievance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bear | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 courage | case |
| 7 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 courage | amod |
| 8 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bear | obl |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bear | advcl |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 misfortunes | amod |
| 13 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 do | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | present | Men | little grievances | with less courage; often property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grievance=Patient | |||
| 2 | do | present | grievances = grievance | large misfortunes | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent misfortune=Eventuality |
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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