Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 118
M. Menoides, at the suggestion of M. Villemain, Minister of Public Instruction to King Louis Philippe, had been entrusted with a commission to search for ancient MSS., and in carrying out his instructions he found a MS. at the convent of St. Laura, on Mount Athos, which proved to be a copy of the long suspected and wished-for choliambic version of Babrias.
Who acts: M., Mount Athos · What happens: entrust, search, carry out, find, prove, be · To what, where: M., instructions, MS., convent, copy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (M., Mount Athos), 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 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 entrusted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Menoides | Menoides | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 M. | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 suggestion | punct |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 suggestion | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 suggestion | det |
| 6 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 M. | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 M. | case |
| 8 | M. | M. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 suggestion | nmod |
| 9 | Villemain | Villemain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 M. | flat |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Minister | punct |
| 11 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 M. | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Instruction | case |
| 13 | Public | Public | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Instruction | compound |
| 14 | Instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Minister | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Louis | case |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Louis | nmod:desc |
| 17 | Louis | Louis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 suggestion | nmod |
| 18 | Philippe | Philippe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Louis | flat |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 M. | punct |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 entrusted | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 entrusted | aux:pass |
| 22 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 commission | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 commission | det |
| 25 | commission | commission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 entrusted | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 search | mark |
| 27 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 entrusted | advcl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 MSS | case |
| 29 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 MSS | amod |
| 30 | MSS | MSS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 search | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 entrusted | punct |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 found | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 found | cc |
| 34 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 35 carrying | mark |
| 35 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 found | advcl |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 carrying | compound:prt |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 instructions | nmod:poss |
| 38 | instructions | instruction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 carrying | obj |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 found | nsubj |
| 40 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 entrusted | parataxis |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 MS. | det |
| 42 | MS. | MS. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 found | obj |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 convent | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 convent | det |
| 45 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 found | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Laura | case |
| 47 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 Laura | nmod:desc |
| 48 | Laura | Laura | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 convent | nmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 Athos | punct |
| 50 | on | on | ADP | _ | 52 Athos | case |
| 51 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 Athos | compound |
| 52 | Athos | Athos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 55 proved | nsubj |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 proved | punct |
| 54 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 55 proved | nsubj |
| 55 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 found | ccomp |
| 56 | to | to | PART | _ | 59 copy | mark |
| 57 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 59 copy | cop |
| 58 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 59 copy | det |
| 59 | copy | copy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 proved | obj |
| 60 | of | of | ADP | _ | 62 long | case |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 long | det |
| 62 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 copy | amod |
| 63 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 62 long | acl |
| 64 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 65 wished | cc |
| 65 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 63 suspected | conj |
| 66 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 65 wished | punct |
| 67 | for | for | ADP | _ | 69 version | case |
| 68 | choliambic | choliambic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 69 version | compound |
| 69 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 wished | obl |
| 70 | of | of | ADP | _ | 71 Babrias | case |
| 71 | Babrias | Babrias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 69 version | nmod |
| 72 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 entrusted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entrust | past · perfect · passive | M. | with a commission | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with commission=Theme | ||||
| 2 | search | to-infinitive | for ancient MSS | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for mss=Theme | |||||
| 3 | carry out | gerund | M. not said here | M.'s instructions | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | find | past | M. | a MS. | the convent of Laura St. | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent ms.=Attribute clause=Theme | |||
| 5 | prove | past | Mount Athos | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | to-infinitive | a copy | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | suspect | participle | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | wish | participle | for choliambic version of Babrias | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for version=Theme | |||||
| 9 | suggest | M. and Minister of Public Instruction | to Louis King | nom suggestion «cognition intransitive»: of=agent to=obl | |||||
| 10 | instruct | M. | nom instruction «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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