Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 20

Phædrus, the great imitator of Æsop, plainly indicates this double purpose to be the true office of the writer of fables.

Who acts: Phædrus · What happens: indicate, be · To what, where: double purpose, true office

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 (Phædrus), 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	Phædrus	Phædrus	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 indicates	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 imitator	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 imitator	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 imitator	amod
5	imitator	imitator	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Phædrus	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Æsop	case
7	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 imitator	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Phædrus	punct
9	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	10 indicates	advmod
10	indicates	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 purpose	det
12	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 purpose	amod
13	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 indicates	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	18 office	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 office	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 office	det
17	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 office	amod
18	office	office	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 purpose	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 writer	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 writer	det
21	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 office	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 fables	case
23	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 writer	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 indicates	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	indicate	present	Phædrus	this double purpose				plainly property	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot purpose=Topic
2	is a	to-infinitive		the true office				of the writer of fables	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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