Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 24
Mueller, “originated in Greece in an intentional travestie of human affairs.
What happens: originate · To what, where: Mueller, Greece
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.
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 | Mueller | Mueller | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 originated | punct |
| 3 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 originated | punct |
| 4 | originated | originate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Mueller | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 Greece | case |
| 6 | Greece | Greece | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 originated | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 travestie | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 travestie | det |
| 9 | intentional | intentional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 travestie | amod |
| 10 | travestie | travestie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 originated | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 affairs | case |
| 12 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 affairs | amod |
| 13 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 travestie | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mueller | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | originate in a quote | participle | Mueller not said here | Greece | in a intentional travestie of human affairs | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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