Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 17
He is a great teacher, a corrector of morals, a censor of vice, and a commender of virtue.
Who acts: fabulist · What happens: be · To what, where: great teacher
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 teacher | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 teacher | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 teacher | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 teacher | amod |
| 5 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 corrector | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 corrector | det |
| 8 | corrector | corrector | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 teacher | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 morals | case |
| 10 | morals | moral | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 corrector | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 censor | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 censor | det |
| 13 | censor | censor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 teacher | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 vice | case |
| 15 | vice | vice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 censor | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 commender | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 commender | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 commender | det |
| 19 | commender | commender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 teacher | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 virtue | case |
| 21 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 commender | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 teacher | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | fabulist | a great teacher and a corrector of morals and a censor of vice and a commender of virtue | tree rules |
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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