Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 83
Some men underrate their best blessings.
Who acts: men · What happens: underrate, bless · To what, where: best blessings
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: who acts (men), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 underrate | nsubj |
| 3 | underrate | underrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 blessings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 blessings | amod |
| 6 | blessings | blessing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 underrate | obj |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 underrate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | underrate | present | some men | men's best blessings | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bless | men = man | nom blessing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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