Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 116
Time and place often give the advantage to the weak over the strong.
Who acts: Time · What happens: give · To what, where: advantage, weak
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Time), 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 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 place | cc |
| 3 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Time | conj |
| 4 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 give | advmod |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 advantage | det |
| 7 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 weak | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 weak | det |
| 10 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 give | obl |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 strong | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 strong | det |
| 13 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 weak | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Time and place | the advantage | the weak | often property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme to weak=Recipient |
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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