Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 131
They trust further that their present work will have met that necessity in a satisfactory manner.
Who acts: Publishers, present work · What happens: trust, meet, work · To what, where: necessity, satisfactory manner
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, present work), 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 trust | nsubj |
| 2 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | further | further | ADV | _ | 2 trust | advmod |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 met | mark |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 work | nmod:poss |
| 6 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 work | amod |
| 7 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 met | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 met | aux |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 trust | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 necessity | det |
| 12 | necessity | necessity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 manner | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 manner | det |
| 15 | satisfactory | satisfactory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 manner | amod |
| 16 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | present | Publishers = publisher | further property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | meet | future · perfect | Publishers's present work | that necessity | a satisfactory manner | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent necessity=Co-Agent | |||
| 3 | work | Publishers = publisher | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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