Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 10

The Parable is the designed use of language purposely intended to convey a hidden and secret meaning other than that contained in the words themselves; and which may or may not bear a special reference to the hearer, or reader.

Who acts: Parable · What happens: design, be, intend, convey, mean, contain · To what, where: designed use, hidden, words

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Literally Translated From the Greek. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Parable), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Parable	det
2	Parable	Parable	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 use	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 use	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 use	det
5	designed	design	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 use	amod
6	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 language	case
8	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 use	nmod
9	purposely	purposely	ADV	_	10 intended	advmod
10	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 use	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 convey	mark
12	convey	convey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 intended	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hidden	det
14	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 convey	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 secret	cc
16	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hidden	conj
17	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 hidden	advcl
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 meaning	xcomp
19	than	than	ADP	_	20 that	case
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 other	obl
21	contained	contain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 meaning	xcomp
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 words	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 words	det
24	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 contained	obl
25	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 contained	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 bear	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 bear	cc
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 bear	obj
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 bear	aux
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	33 bear	cc
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 bear	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 bear	advmod
33	bear	bear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 use	parataxis
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 reference	det
35	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 reference	amod
36	reference	reference	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bear	obj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 hearer	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 hearer	det
39	hearer	hearer	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bear	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 reader	punct
41	or	or	CCONJ	_	42 reader	cc
42	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bear	conj
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	design	participle					vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the Parable	the designed use		of language	tree rules
3	intend	participle	the Parable not said here			purposely property	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	convey not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Parable not said here	a hidden			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hidden=Topic
5	mean	gerund	the Parable not said here			other property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	contain not said to happen	participle	the Parable not said here	words = word	the words		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in word=Location
7	not bear	may		the designed use		to the hearer	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Beneficiary reference=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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