Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 136
The Editor must claim the privilege of adding a few words on a matter personal to himself.
Who acts: Editor, privilege · What happens: claim, add · To what, where: privilege, few words, matter
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 (Editor, privilege), 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 Editor | det |
| 2 | Editor | editor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 claim | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 claim | aux |
| 4 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 privilege | det |
| 6 | privilege | privilege | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 claim | obj |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 adding | mark |
| 8 | adding | add | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 privilege | acl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 words | det |
| 10 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 words | amod |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 adding | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 matter | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 matter | det |
| 14 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 words | nmod |
| 15 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 adding | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 himself | case |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 personal | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 claim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | must | the Editor | the privilege | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent privilege=Topic | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | gerund | the privilege not said here | a few words | a matter | personal property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=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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