Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 33
They are occupied with one short narrative, from which the moral naturally flows, and with which it is intimately associated.
Who acts: rules, moral · What happens: be, flow, associate · To what, where: Many
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 (rules, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 occupied | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 occupied | cop |
| 3 | occupied | occupied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 narrative | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 narrative | nummod |
| 6 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 narrative | amod |
| 7 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 occupied | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flows | punct |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 which | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 flows | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 moral | det |
| 12 | moral | moral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flows | nsubj |
| 13 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 14 flows | advmod |
| 14 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 occupied | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 associated | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 associated | cc |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 associated | obl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 associated | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 associated | aux:pass |
| 21 | intimately | intimately | ADV | _ | 22 associated | advmod |
| 22 | associated | associate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 flows | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 occupied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | rules = rule | with one short narrative; occupied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flow | present | the moral | naturally property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | associate | present · passive | Many | intimately property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with which=Co-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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