Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 133

The Publishers trust to vindicate, on another ground, their claims to a share of public patronage.

Who acts: Publishers · What happens: trust, vindicate, claim, share · To what, where: ground, public patronage

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	3 trust	nsubj
3	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 vindicate	mark
5	vindicate	vindicate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trust	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ground	punct
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 vindicate	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 claims	punct
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 claims	nmod:poss
12	claims	claim	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ground	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 share	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 share	det
15	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 claims	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 patronage	case
17	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 patronage	amod
18	patronage	patronage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 share	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 trust	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	trust	present	the Publishers				vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	vindicate	to-infinitive	the Publishers not said here		another ground and Publishers's claims to a share of public patronage		tree rules
3	claim		Publishers = publisher			to a share of public patronage	nom claim «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl
4	share			public patronage			nom share «possession 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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