Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 18
In this consists the superiority of the Fable over the Tale or the Parable.
What happens: consist · To what, where: superiority, this
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 consists | obl |
| 3 | consists | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 superiority | det |
| 5 | superiority | superiority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consists | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Fable | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fable | det |
| 8 | Fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 superiority | nmod |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 Tale | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Tale | det |
| 11 | Tale | Tale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Fable | nmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 Parable | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Parable | det |
| 14 | Parable | Parable | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Tale | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consists | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | present | the superiority of the Fable over the Tale or the Parable | this | 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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