Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 80

It bears no fruit, and is not of the least service to man.”

What happens: not be

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bears	nsubj
2	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 fruit	det
4	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bears	nmod:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 service	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 service	cc
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 service	cop
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 service	advmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 service	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 service	det
11	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 service	amod
12	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bears	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 man	case
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 service	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bears	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 bears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present						of the least service; to man	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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