Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 112

What’s bred in the bone will stick to the flesh.

Who acts: bone · What happens: breed, stick

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bone), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 bred	nsubj:pass
2	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bred	aux:pass
3	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 stick	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bone	det
6	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stick	nsubj
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stick	aux
8	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bred	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 flesh	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flesh	det
11	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stick	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breed	present · passive							tree rules
2	stick	future	the bone					to the flesh	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to flesh=Co-Patient

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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