Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 27
The construction of a fable involves a minute attention to (1), the narration itself; (2), the deduction of the moral; and (3), a careful maintenance of the individual characteristics of the fictitious personages introduced into it.
Who acts: construction, moral · What happens: involve, introduce, construct, deduct, maintain · To what, where: minute attention, fictitious personages, construction, fable, individual characteristics
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 (construction, moral), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 construction | det |
| 2 | construction | construction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 involves | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 fable | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fable | det |
| 5 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 construction | nmod |
| 6 | involves | involve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 attention | det |
| 8 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 attention | compound |
| 9 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 involves | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 1 | case |
| 11 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 12 1 | punct |
| 12 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 attention | nmod |
| 13 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 12 1 | punct |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 narration | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 narration | det |
| 16 | narration | narration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 1 | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 16 narration | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 2 | punct |
| 19 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 2 | punct |
| 20 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 involves | parataxis |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 2 | punct |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 deduction | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 deduction | det |
| 24 | deduction | deduction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 involves | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 moral | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 moral | det |
| 27 | moral | moral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 deduction | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 3 | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 3 | cc |
| 30 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 31 3 | punct |
| 31 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 involves | parataxis |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 31 3 | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 maintenance | punct |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 maintenance | det |
| 35 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 maintenance | amod |
| 36 | maintenance | maintenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 3 | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 characteristics | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 characteristics | det |
| 39 | individual | individual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 characteristics | amod |
| 40 | characteristics | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 maintenance | nmod |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 personages | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 personages | det |
| 43 | fictitious | fictitious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 personages | amod |
| 44 | personages | personage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 characteristics | nmod |
| 45 | introduced | introduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 44 personages | acl |
| 46 | into | into | ADP | _ | 47 it | case |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 introduced | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 involves | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | involve | present | the construction of a fable | a minute attention | to 1 the narration construction; the deduction of the moral obl | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme | |||
| 2 | introduce | participle | the fictitious personages not said here | construction | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | construct | a fable | nom construction «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | deduct | the moral | nom deduction «possession intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | maintain | the individual characteristics of the fictitious personages | nom maintenance «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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