Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 127
The first of these deviates so very far from the text, that it degenerates into a parody.
Who acts: first · What happens: degenerate · To what, where: text, parody
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 (first), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 text | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 deviates | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 deviates | det |
| 5 | deviates | deviate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 first | nmod |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 far | advmod |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 far | advmod |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 text | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 text | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 text | det |
| 11 | text | text | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 degenerates | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 degenerates | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 degenerates | nsubj |
| 15 | degenerates | degenerate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 text | acl:relcl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 parody | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 parody | det |
| 18 | parody | parody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 degenerates | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 text | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | degenerate | present | first | the text not said here | a parody | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent text=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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