Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 108
Everyone is more or less master of his own fate.
Who acts: Everyone, master · What happens: be, fate
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everyone, master), 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 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 3 more | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 more | cop |
| 3 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 master | cc |
| 5 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 master | amod |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 more | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fate | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fate | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fate | amod |
| 10 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 master | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 more | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Everyone | more property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fate | master | nom fate «event 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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