Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 106
Youth’s first duty is reverence to parents.
Who acts: first duty · What happens: be · To what, where: reverence
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first duty), 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 | Youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 duty | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Youth | case |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 duty | amod |
| 4 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reverence | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 reverence | cop |
| 6 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 parents | case |
| 8 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 reverence | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reverence | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Youth's first duty | reverence | to parents | 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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