Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 47
What respect is shown to old age in these days?
What happens: show · To what, where: respect, old age
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: 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 | DET | PronType=Int | 2 respect | det |
| 2 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shown | aux:pass |
| 4 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 age | case |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 age | amod |
| 7 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shown | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 days | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 days | det |
| 10 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shown | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 shown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · passive | what respect | old age | day | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to age=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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