Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 122
They found a most worthy editor in the late distinguished Sir George Cornewall Lewis, and a translator equally qualified for his task, in the Reverend James Davies, M.A., sometime a scholar of Lincoln College, Oxford, and himself a relation of their English editor.
Who acts: treasures, translator · What happens: find, task · To what, where: worthy editor, late distinguished George
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 (treasures, translator), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 found | nsubj |
| 2 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 editor | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 worthy | advmod |
| 5 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 editor | amod |
| 6 | editor | editor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 George | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 George | det |
| 9 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 George | amod |
| 10 | distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 George | amod |
| 11 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 George | nmod:desc |
| 12 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 editor | nmod |
| 13 | Cornewall | Cornewall | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 George | flat |
| 14 | Lewis | Lewis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 George | flat |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 qualified | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 qualified | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 translator | det |
| 18 | translator | translator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 qualified | nsubj |
| 19 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 20 qualified | advmod |
| 20 | qualified | qualified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 George | acl:relcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 task | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 task | nmod:poss |
| 23 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 qualified | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Davies | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 Davies | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Davies | det |
| 27 | Reverend | Reverend | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Davies | compound |
| 28 | James | James | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Reverend | flat |
| 29 | Davies | Davies | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 qualified | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 M.A | punct |
| 31 | M.A | M.A | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Davies | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 scholar | punct |
| 34 | sometime | sometime | ADV | PronType=Ind | 36 scholar | advmod |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 scholar | det |
| 36 | scholar | scholar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 College | case |
| 38 | Lincoln | Lincoln | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 College | compound |
| 39 | College | College | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 scholar | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 Oxford | punct |
| 41 | Oxford | Oxford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 College | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 himself | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 himself | cc |
| 44 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 found | obl |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 relation | det |
| 46 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 found | obj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 editor | case |
| 48 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 editor | nmod:poss |
| 49 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 editor | amod |
| 50 | editor | editor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 relation | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | treasures = treasure | a worthy editor | the late distinguished George Sir | a scholar of Lincoln College and Oxford obl; translator obl | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent editor=Theme relation=Attribute | ||
| 2 | task | translator | nom task «act 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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