Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 15
The true fabulist, therefore, discharges a most important function.
Who acts: true fabulist · What happens: discharge · To what, where: important function
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 (true fabulist), 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 | 3 fabulist | det |
| 2 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fabulist | amod |
| 3 | fabulist | fabulist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 discharges | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fabulist | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 7 discharges | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 therefore | punct |
| 7 | discharges | discharge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 function | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 important | advmod |
| 10 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 function | amod |
| 11 | function | function | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 discharges | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 discharges | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discharge | present | the true fabulist | a important function | therefore property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent function=Theme |
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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