Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 39
These terms of praise, it must be confessed, cannot be bestowed on all the fables in this collection.
What happens: confess, not bestow, term · To what, where: terms, fables, praise
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: 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 terms | det |
| 2 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 confessed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 praise | case |
| 4 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 terms | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 terms | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 confessed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 confessed | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 confessed | aux:pass |
| 9 | confessed | confess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bestowed | punct |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 bestowed | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 bestowed | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 bestowed | aux:pass |
| 14 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 confessed | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 fables | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 fables | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fables | det |
| 18 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bestowed | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 collection | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 collection | det |
| 21 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fables | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 confessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confess | must · passive | this terms of praise | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 2 | not bestow | can · passive | all fables in this collection | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | term | praise | nom term «communication 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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