Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 38

While they are made to depict the motives and passions of men, they retain, in an eminent degree, their own special features of craft or counsel, of cowardice or courage, of generosity or rapacity.

Who acts: characters · What happens: make, depict, retain, feature · To what, where: characters, motives, eminent degree, craft

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 (characters), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 made	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 depict	mark
6	depict	depict	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 motives	det
8	motives	motive	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 depict	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 passions	cc
10	passions	passion	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 motives	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 men	case
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 passions	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 retain	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 retain	nsubj
15	retain	retain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 degree	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 degree	case
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 degree	det
19	eminent	eminent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 degree	amod
20	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 retain	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 features	punct
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 features	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 features	amod
24	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 features	amod
25	features	feature	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 craft	case
27	craft	craft	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 features	nmod
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 counsel	cc
29	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 craft	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cowardice	punct
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 cowardice	case
32	cowardice	cowardice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 courage	cc
34	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cowardice	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 generosity	punct
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 generosity	case
37	generosity	generosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	39 rapacity	cc
39	rapacity	rapacity	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 generosity	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		characters = character		of cowardice or courage; of generosity or rapacity; characters's own special features of craft or counsel obl	tree rules
2	depict	to-infinitive	characters = character not said here	the motives and passions of men			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent motive=Theme
3	retain	present	characters = character		a eminent degree		tree rules
4	feature		characters = character	craft or counsel			nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=agent 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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