Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 36

There is no need of a separate sentence to explain it; no possibility of impressing it deeper, by that load we too often see of accumulated reflections.”

Who acts: need, possibility, we · What happens: be, explain, impress, see, accumulate, need · To what, where: need, separate sentence

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 (need, possibility, we), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 need	det
4	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 sentence	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 sentence	det
7	separate	separate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sentence	amod
8	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 need	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 explain	mark
10	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 sentence	acl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 explain	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 possibility	punct
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 possibility	det
14	possibility	possibility	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 impressing	mark
16	impressing	impress	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 possibility	acl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 impressing	obj
18	deeper	deep	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 impressing	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 see	punct
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 load	case
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 load	det
22	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 see	obl
23	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 see	nsubj
24	too	too	ADV	_	25 often	advmod
25	often	often	ADV	_	26 see	advmod
26	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 reflections	case
28	accumulated	accumulate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 reflections	amod
29	reflections	reflection	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 see	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 see	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	26 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	no need of a separate sentence		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	explain speech: assert	to-infinitive	no need of a separate sentence not said here	need			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
3	impress	gerund	no possibility not said here	need		deep property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
4	see	present	we			by that load; of accumulated reflections; often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	accumulate	participle					vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	need			a separate sentence			nom need «state 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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