Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 112

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

Who acts: man · What happens: be, mind · To what, where: own business

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 (man), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 content	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 content	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 content	cop
5	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 mind	mark
7	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 content	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 business	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 business	amod
10	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mind	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 content	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	every man					content property	tree rules
2	mind	to-infinitive	every man not said here	man's own business					vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Theme

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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