Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 12
Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed increase their means of injuring you.
Who acts: Benefits · What happens: bestow, dispose, mean, injure · To what, where: Benefits, you
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Benefits), 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 | Benefits | benefit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 means | nsubj |
| 2 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Benefits | acl |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 increase | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 increase | det |
| 5 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 disposed | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 evil | punct |
| 7 | disposed | dispose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 increase | amod |
| 8 | increase | increase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bestowed | obl |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 means | nmod:poss |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 injuring | mark |
| 12 | injuring | injure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 means | advcl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 injuring | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bestow | participle | Benefits not said here | upon the disposed increase | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dispose | participle | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | mean | present | Benefits | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | injure | gerund | Benefits not said here | you | 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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