Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 28

The narration should relate to one simple action, consistent with itself, and neither be overladen with a multiplicity of details, nor distracted by a variety of circumstances.

Who acts: narration · What happens: relate, overladen, distract · To what, where: neither

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 (narration), 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 narration	det
2	narration	narration	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 relate	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 relate	aux
4	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 action	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 action	nummod
7	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 action	amod
8	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 relate	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 consistent	punct
10	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 action	amod
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 itself	case
12	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 consistent	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 overladen	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 overladen	cc
15	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	17 overladen	nsubj:pass
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 overladen	aux:pass
17	overladen	overladen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 relate	parataxis
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 multiplicity	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 multiplicity	det
20	multiplicity	multiplicity	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 overladen	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 details	case
22	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 multiplicity	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 distracted	punct
24	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	25 distracted	cc
25	distracted	distract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 overladen	parataxis
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 variety	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 variety	det
28	variety	variety	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 distracted	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 circumstances	case
30	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 variety	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 relate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	relate	should	the narration		to one simple action	vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to action=Co-Theme
2	overladen	infinitive · passive		neither	with a multiplicity of details	tree rules
3	distract	participle			by a variety of circumstances	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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