Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 21
Duplex libelli dos est: quod risum movet, Et quod prudenti vitam consilio monet.
Who acts: Duplex libelli · What happens: do, quod · To what, where: est, risum movet, prudenti vitam
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 (Duplex libelli), 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 | Duplex | duplex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 libelli | compound |
| 2 | libelli | libelli | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dos | nsubj |
| 3 | dos | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | est | est | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dos | obj |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 quod | punct |
| 6 | quod | quod | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 dos | parataxis |
| 7 | risum | risum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 movet | compound |
| 8 | movet | movet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 quod | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 quod | punct |
| 10 | Et | et | CCONJ | _ | 11 quod | cc |
| 11 | quod | quod | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 quod | conj |
| 12 | prudenti | prudenti | X | _ | 13 vitam | compound |
| 13 | vitam | vitam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 quod | obj |
| 14 | consilio | consilio | X | Foreign=Yes | 13 vitam | dep |
| 15 | monet | Monet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 vitam | appos |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dos | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | Duplex libelli | est | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent est=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | quod | infinitive | risum movet | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | quod | infinitive | prudenti vitam | 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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