Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 125

They boldly assert that the new light thrown upon these fables by the discovery of the metrical version by Babrias, renders a new translation an inevitable necessity.

Who acts: grounds, new light · What happens: assert, throw, render, discover · To what, where: new light, fables, new translation, metrical version

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 (grounds, new light), 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	3 assert	nsubj
2	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 assert	advmod
3	assert	assert	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 renders	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 light	det
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 light	amod
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 renders	nsubj
8	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 light	acl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 fables	case
10	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 fables	det
11	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 thrown	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 discovery	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 discovery	det
14	discovery	discovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thrown	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 version	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 version	det
17	metrical	metrical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 version	amod
18	version	version	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 discovery	nmod
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 Babrias	case
20	Babrias	Babrias	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 version	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 light	punct
22	renders	render	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 assert	advcl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 translation	det
24	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 translation	amod
25	translation	translation	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 renders	obj
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 necessity	det
27	inevitable	inevitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 necessity	amod
28	necessity	necessity	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 renders	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 assert	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	assert	present	grounds			boldly property	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	throw	participle		the new light not said here	this fables	by the discovery of the metrical version by Babrias	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon fable=Destination
3	render	present	the new light	a new translation			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent translation=Recipient necessity=Theme
4	discover			the metrical version by Babrias			nom discovery «act 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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