Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 139

The first was a request to furnish new morals and applications to a definite number of fables; Ihe other was a commission to add a large number of additional fables and to make a wholly new translation.

Who acts: first, Ihe · What happens: be, furnish, add, make · To what, where: request, new morals, definite number, commission, large number, new translation

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 (first, Ihe), 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 first	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 request	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 request	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 request	det
5	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 furnish	mark
7	furnish	furnish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 request	acl
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 morals	amod
9	morals	moral	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 furnish	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 applications	cc
11	applications	application	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 morals	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	15 number	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 number	det
14	definite	definite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 number	amod
15	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 furnish	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 fables	case
17	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 number	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 commission	punct
19	Ihe	Ihe	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 commission	nsubj
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Ihe	amod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 commission	cop
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 commission	det
23	commission	commission	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 request	nmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 add	mark
25	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 commission	acl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 number	det
27	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 number	amod
28	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 add	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 fables	case
30	additional	additional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fables	amod
31	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 number	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 make	cc
33	to	to	PART	_	34 make	mark
34	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 add	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 translation	det
36	wholly	wholly	ADV	_	37 new	advmod
37	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 translation	amod
38	translation	translation	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 make	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 request	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the first	a request		tree rules
2	furnish	to-infinitive		new morals and applications	a definite number of fables	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent moral=Theme to number=Recipient
3	is a	past	Ihe	a commission		tree rules
4	add speech: assert	to-infinitive	the first not said here	a large number of additional fables		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient
5	make	to-infinitive	the first not said here	a new translation		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset translation=Product

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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