Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 116

A veritable copy of Babrias was found in a manner as singular as were the MSS. of Quinctilian’s Institutes, and of Cicero’s Orations by Poggio in the monastery of St. Gall A.D.

What happens: find, be, copy · To what, where: veritable copy, manner, Babrias

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.

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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 copy	det
2	veritable	veritable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 copy	amod
3	copy	copy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Babrias	case
5	Babrias	Babrias	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 copy	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	aux:pass
7	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 manner	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 manner	det
10	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 singular	case
12	singular	singular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 found	obl
13	as	as	ADP	_	16 MSS	case
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 MSS	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 MSS	det
16	MSS	MSS	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 singular	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 Institutes	case
19	Quinctilian	Quinctilian	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Institutes	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 Quinctilian	case
21	Institutes	Institute	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 found	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Orations	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Orations	cc
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 Orations	case
25	Cicero	Cicero	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Orations	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 Cicero	case
27	Orations	oration	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 found	obl
28	by	by	ADP	_	29 Poggio	case
29	Poggio	Poggio	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Orations	nmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 monastery	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 monastery	det
32	monastery	monastery	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Orations	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 Gall	case
34	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Gall	nmod:desc
35	Gall	Gall	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 monastery	nmod
36	A.D	A.D	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Gall	flat
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive	a veritable copy of Babrias	a manner	as singular; of Quinctilian's Institutes; of Cicero's Orations by Poggio in the monastery of Gall St.	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme as singular=Attribute
2	is	past			as the MSS	tree rules
3	copy		Babrias			nom copy «communication transitive»: of=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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