Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 114
Francesco de Furia, a learned Italian, contributed further testimony to the correctness of the supposition that Babrias had made a veritable collection of fables by printing from a MS. contained in the Vatican library several fables never before published.
Who acts: Babrias · What happens: learn, contribute, make, print, contain, publish · To what, where: veritable collection, several fables, MS., Vatican library
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 (Babrias), 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 | Francesco | Francesco | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Francesco | flat |
| 3 | Furia | Furia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Francesco | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 testimony | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 testimony | det |
| 6 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 testimony | amod |
| 7 | Italian | Italian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 learned | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 contributed | punct |
| 9 | contributed | contribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 learned | conj |
| 10 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 testimony | amod |
| 11 | testimony | testimony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Francesco | appos |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 correctness | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 correctness | det |
| 14 | correctness | correctness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 testimony | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 supposition | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 supposition | det |
| 17 | supposition | supposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 correctness | nmod |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 made | mark |
| 19 | Babrias | Babrias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 made | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 made | aux |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 supposition | acl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 collection | det |
| 23 | veritable | veritable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 collection | amod |
| 24 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 fables | case |
| 26 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 collection | nmod |
| 27 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 28 printing | mark |
| 28 | printing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 made | advcl | |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 MS. | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 MS. | det |
| 31 | MS. | MS. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 printing | obl |
| 32 | contained | contain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 printing | xcomp |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 library | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 library | det |
| 35 | Vatican | Vatican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 library | compound |
| 36 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 contained | obl |
| 37 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 fables | amod |
| 38 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 printing | obj |
| 39 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 40 before | advmod |
| 40 | before | before | ADV | _ | 41 published | advmod |
| 41 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 fables | acl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Francesco | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | participle | italian property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | contribute | participle | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect | Babrias | a veritable collection of fables | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collection=Product | ||||
| 4 | gerund | Babrias not said here | several fables | a MS. | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | contain | participle | Babrias not said here | the Vatican library | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in library=Location | ||||
| 6 | publish | participle | several fables not said here | before property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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