Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 41

This inferiority of some to others is sufficiently accounted for in the history of the origin and descent of these fables.

Who acts: fables · What happens: account, descend · To what, where: inferiority

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 (fables), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 inferiority	det
2	inferiority	inferiority	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 accounted	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 some	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 inferiority	nmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 others	case
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 inferiority	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 accounted	aux:pass
8	sufficiently	sufficiently	ADV	_	9 accounted	advmod
9	accounted	account	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 history	case
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 history	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 history	det
13	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 accounted	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 origin	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 origin	det
16	origin	origin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 history	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 descent	cc
18	descent	descent	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 origin	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 fables	case
20	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 fables	det
21	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 descent	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 accounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	account	present · passive		this inferiority of some to others				for the history of the origin and descent of this fables; sufficiently property	tree rules
2	descend		this fables						nom descent «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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