Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 119
This MS. was found to be divided into two books, the one containing a hundred and twenty-five, and the other ninety-five fables.
Who acts: MS., one · What happens: find, divide, contain · To what, where: MS., two books, hundred
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 (MS., one), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 MS. | det |
| 2 | MS. | MS. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | aux:pass |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 divided | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 divided | aux:pass |
| 7 | divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 found | xcomp |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 books | case |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 books | nummod |
| 10 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 divided | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 books | appos |
| 14 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 one | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hundred | det |
| 16 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 containing | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 five | cc |
| 18 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 five | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 twenty | punct |
| 20 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 hundred | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fables | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fables | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fables | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fables | amod |
| 25 | ninety | ninety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fables | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 five | punct |
| 27 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 fables | nummod |
| 28 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 found | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | this MS. | the other ninety five fables obl | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | divide | to-infinitive · passive | this MS. not said here | two books | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» | ||||
| 3 | contain | gerund | the one not said here | a hundred | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hundred=Theme |
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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