Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 32
Many of these fables are characterized by the strictest observance of these rules.
Who acts: strictest observance · What happens: characterize, observe · To what, where: Many, rules
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 (strictest observance), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 characterized | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 fables | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 fables | det |
| 4 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Many | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 characterized | aux:pass |
| 6 | characterized | characterize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 observance | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 observance | det |
| 9 | strictest | strict | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 observance | amod |
| 10 | observance | observance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 characterized | obl:agent |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 rules | case |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 rules | det |
| 13 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 observance | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 characterized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | characterize | present · passive | the strictest observance of this rules | Many of this fables | vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | observe | this rules | nom observance «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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