Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 98
Contentment with our lot is an element of happiness.
Who acts: Contentment · What happens: be · To what, where: element
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 (Contentment), 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 | Contentment | contentment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 element | nsubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 lot | case |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 lot | nmod:poss |
| 4 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Contentment | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 element | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 element | det |
| 7 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 happiness | case |
| 9 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 element | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 element | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Contentment with our lot | a element | of happiness | tree rules |
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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