Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 110

Their letters and disputations on this subject, enlivened on both sides with much wit and learning, will ever bear a conspicuous place in the literary history of the seventeenth century.

Who acts: letters, Charles · What happens: enliven, bear, letter · To what, where: letters, sides, conspicuous place, literary history

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 (letters, Charles), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 letters	nmod:poss
2	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 bear	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 disputations	cc
4	disputations	disputation	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 letters	conj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 subject	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 subject	det
7	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disputations	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 enlivened	punct
9	enlivened	enliven	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 letters	acl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 sides	case
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	12 sides	det
12	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 enlivened	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 wit	case
14	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wit	amod
15	wit	wit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sides	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 learning	cc
17	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wit	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 letters	punct
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 bear	aux
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 bear	advmod
21	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 place	det
23	conspicuous	conspicuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 place	amod
24	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bear	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	28 history	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 history	det
27	literary	literary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 history	amod
28	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bear	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 century	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 century	det
31	seventeenth	seventeenth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 century	compound
32	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 history	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	enliven	participle		Charles's letters and disputations on this subject not said here	both sides with much wit and learning		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	bear	future	Charles's letters and disputations on this subject	a conspicuous place	the literary history of the seventeenth century	ever	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
3	letter		Charles				nom letter «communication 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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