Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 29

The moral or lesson should be so plain, and so intimately interwoven with, and so necessarily dependent on, the narration, that every reader should be compelled to give to it the same undeniable interpretation.

Who acts: moral lesson · What happens: be, interweave, compel, give · To what, where: reader, same undeniable interpretation, narration

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 (moral lesson), 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	4 lesson	det
2	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lesson	amod
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 lesson	cc
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plain	nsubj
5	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 plain	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 plain	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 plain	advmod
8	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 interwoven	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 interwoven	cc
11	so	so	ADV	_	13 interwoven	advmod
12	intimately	intimately	ADV	_	13 interwoven	advmod
13	interwoven	interweave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 plain	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	13 interwoven	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dependent	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dependent	cc
17	so	so	ADV	_	19 dependent	advmod
18	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	_	19 dependent	advmod
19	dependent	dependent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plain	conj
20	on	on	ADV	_	19 dependent	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 narration	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 narration	det
23	narration	narration	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 plain	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 compelled	punct
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 reader	det
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 reader	det
27	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 compelled	nsubj:pass
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 compelled	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 compelled	aux:pass
30	compelled	compel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 plain	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 give	mark
32	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 compelled	xcomp
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 give	obl
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 interpretation	det
36	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 interpretation	amod
37	undeniable	undeniable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 interpretation	amod
38	interpretation	interpretation	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 give	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 plain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	should	the moral lesson			plain property	tree rules
2	interweave	participle	the moral lesson not said here			intimately property	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	be		the moral lesson not said here			necessarily property	tree rules
4	compel	should · passive		that reader			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
5	give	to-infinitive		the same undeniable interpretation	narration		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent interpretation=Theme to it=Recipient

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/pg21/1/29/