Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 123
Thus, after an eclipse of many centuries, Babrias shines out as the earliest, and most reliable collector of veritable Æsopian Fables.
Who acts: Babrias · What happens: shine out, eclipse · To what, where: most reliable collector, many centuries
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 (Babrias), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 11 shines | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 eclipse | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 eclipse | det |
| 5 | eclipse | eclipse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shines | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 centuries | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 centuries | amod |
| 8 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eclipse | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eclipse | punct |
| 10 | Babrias | Babrias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 shines | nsubj |
| 11 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 shines | compound:prt |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 earliest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 earliest | det |
| 15 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 shines | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 collector | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 collector | cc |
| 18 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 collector | amod |
| 19 | reliable | reliable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 collector | amod |
| 20 | collector | collector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shines | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Fables | case |
| 22 | veritable | veritable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Fables | amod |
| 23 | Æsopian | Æsopian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Fables | compound |
| 24 | Fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 collector | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 shines | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine out | present | Babrias | most reliable collector of veritable Æsopian Fables | after a eclipse of many centuries | as the earliest; thus property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||
| 2 | eclipse | many centuries | nom eclipse «event 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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