Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 130
The Publishers therefore ground their first claim for public approval on the necessity of a new translation.
Who acts: Publishers · What happens: claim · To what, where: necessity
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 (Publishers), 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 Publishers | det |
| 2 | Publishers | publisher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 claim | nsubj |
| 3 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 4 ground | advmod |
| 4 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Publishers | nmod |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 claim | nmod:poss |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 claim | amod |
| 7 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 approval | case |
| 9 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 approval | amod |
| 10 | approval | approval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 claim | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 necessity | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 necessity | det |
| 13 | necessity | necessity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 claim | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 translation | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 translation | det |
| 16 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 translation | amod |
| 17 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 necessity | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 claim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim | Publishers = publisher | the necessity of a new translation | for public approval | nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent for=obl on=place |
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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