Mova0.5 pre-release⌕
☰
home / corpora / tales / Three hundred Aesop’s fables / Literally Translated From the Greek / 27

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

detnsubjcasedetnmoddetcompoundobjcasepunctnmodpunctpunctdetnmod:unmarkednmod:unmarkedpunctpunctparataxispunctpunctdetoblcasedetnmodpunctccpunctparataxispunctpunctdetamodconjcasedetamodnmodcasedetamodnmodaclcaseoblpunctrootTheDETconstructionNOUNofADPaDETfableNOUNinvolvesVERBaDETminuteNOUNattentionNOUNtoADP(PUNCT1NUM)PUNCT,PUNCTtheDETnarrationNOUNitselfPRON;PUNCT(PUNCT2NUM)PUNCT,PUNCTtheDETdeductionNOUNofADPtheDETmoralNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJ(PUNCT3NUM)PUNCT,PUNCTaDETcarefulADJmaintenanceNOUNofADPtheDETindividualADJcharacteristicsNOUNofADPtheDETfictitiousADJpersonagesNOUNintroducedVERBintoADPitPRON.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 constructiondet
2constructionconstructionNOUNNumber=Sing6 involvesnsubj
3ofofADP_5 fablecase
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 fabledet
5fablefableNOUNNumber=Sing2 constructionnmod
6involvesinvolveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
7aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art9 attentiondet
8minuteminuteNOUNNumber=Sing9 attentioncompound
9attentionattentionNOUNNumber=Sing6 involvesobj
10totoADP_12 1case
11((PUNCT_12 1punct
1211NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card9 attentionnmod
13))PUNCT_12 1punct
14,,PUNCT_16 narrationpunct
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 narrationdet
16narrationnarrationNOUNNumber=Sing12 1nmod:unmarked
17itselfitselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes16 narrationnmod:unmarked
18;;PUNCT_20 2punct
19((PUNCT_20 2punct
2022NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card6 involvesparataxis
21))PUNCT_20 2punct
22,,PUNCT_24 deductionpunct
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 deductiondet
24deductiondeductionNOUNNumber=Sing6 involvesobl
25ofofADP_27 moralcase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 moraldet
27moralmoralNOUNNumber=Sing24 deductionnmod
28;;PUNCT_31 3punct
29andandCCONJ_31 3cc
30((PUNCT_31 3punct
3133NUMNumForm=Digit NumType=Card6 involvesparataxis
32))PUNCT_31 3punct
33,,PUNCT_36 maintenancepunct
34aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art36 maintenancedet
35carefulcarefulADJDegree=Pos36 maintenanceamod
36maintenancemaintenanceNOUNNumber=Sing31 3conj
37ofofADP_40 characteristicscase
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art40 characteristicsdet
39individualindividualADJDegree=Pos40 characteristicsamod
40characteristicscharacteristicNOUNNumber=Plur36 maintenancenmod
41ofofADP_44 personagescase
42thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art44 personagesdet
43fictitiousfictitiousADJDegree=Pos44 personagesamod
44personagespersonageNOUNNumber=Plur40 characteristicsnmod
45introducedintroduceVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass44 personagesacl
46intointoADP_47 itcase
47ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs45 introducedobl
48..PUNCT_6 involvespunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1involvepresentthe construction of a fablea minute attentionto 1 the narration construction; the deduction of the moral oblvn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme
2introduceparticiplethe fictitious personages not said hereconstructionvn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
3constructa fablenom construction «act transitive»: of=patient
4deductthe moralnom deduction «possession intransitive»: of=agent
5maintainthe individual characteristics of the fictitious personagesnom 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/1/27/