Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 34

“’Tis the simple manner,” says Dodsley,[2] “in which the morals of Æsop are interwoven with his fables that distinguishes him, and gives him the preference over all other mythologists.

Who acts: Dodsley, fables · What happens: say, interweave, distinguish, give · To what, where: morals, Dodsley, preference, other mythologists · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Dodsley, fables), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
2	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 Tis	punct
3	Tis	Tis	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 says	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 manner	det
5	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 manner	amod
6	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Tis	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct
9	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Dodsley	Dodsley	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 says	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 interwoven	punct
12	[	[	PUNCT	_	13 2	punct
13	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 interwoven	discourse
14	]	]	PUNCT	_	13 2	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 interwoven	punct
16	in	in	ADP	_	17 which	case
17	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	19 morals	det
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 morals	det
19	morals	moral	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 interwoven	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Æsop	case
21	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 morals	nmod
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 interwoven	aux:pass
23	interwoven	interweave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 Dodsley	acl:relcl
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 fables	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 fables	nmod:poss
26	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 interwoven	obl
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 distinguishes	nsubj
28	distinguishes	distinguish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 fables	acl:relcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 distinguishes	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gives	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gives	cc
32	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 says	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 gives	iobj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 preference	det
35	preference	preference	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gives	obj
36	over	over	ADP	_	39 mythologists	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 mythologists	det
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 mythologists	amod
39	mythologists	mythologist	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 preference	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Dodsley					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	interweave in a quote	present · passive		which morals of Æsop			with Dodsley's fables	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with fable=Co-Patient
3	distinguish in a quote	present	Dodsley's fables	Dodsley				vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute he=Theme
4	give in a quote	present	Dodsley not said here	the preference	Dodsley	all other mythologists		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient preference=Theme

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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