Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 115
In the year 1844, however, new and unexpected light was thrown upon this subject.
What happens: throw · To what, where: unexpected light, subject
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 year | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 year | det |
| 3 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 new | obl |
| 4 | 1844 | 1844 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 year | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 year | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 new | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 new | punct |
| 8 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thrown | cc |
| 10 | unexpected | unexpected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 light | amod |
| 11 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 thrown | aux:pass |
| 13 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 new | conj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 subject | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 subject | det |
| 16 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thrown | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 new | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past · passive | unexpected light | this subject | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme upon subject=Destination |
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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