Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 138

His answer is, that the two works on which he has been engaged were totally distinct, and entirely independent of each other.

Who acts: answer, editor · What happens: engage, be, answer · To what, where: editor, two works

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 (answer, editor), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 answer	nmod:poss
2	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 distinct	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 distinct	cop
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 distinct	punct
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 distinct	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 works	det
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 works	nummod
8	works	work	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 distinct	nsubj
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 engaged	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 engaged	nsubj:pass
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 engaged	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 engaged	aux:pass
14	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 works	acl:relcl
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 distinct	cop
16	totally	totally	ADV	_	17 distinct	advmod
17	distinct	distinct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 independent	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 independent	cc
20	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	21 independent	advmod
21	independent	independent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 distinct	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 each	case
23	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	21 independent	obl
24	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 each	fixed
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 distinct	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	engage	present · perfect · passive		editor	the two works		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is	present	editor's answer			distinct, totally property	tree rules
3	be		editor's answer not said here			of each; entirely property	tree rules
4	answer		editor				nom answer «communication transitive»: 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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