Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 42

The great bulk of them are not the immediate work of Æsop.

Who acts: great bulk · What happens: not be · To what, where: immediate work

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 (great bulk), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bulk	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bulk	amod
3	bulk	bulk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 work	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bulk	nmod
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 work	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 work	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 work	det
9	immediate	immediate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 work	amod
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Æsop	case
12	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 work	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 work	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	the great bulk of origin	the immediate work				of Æsop	tree rules

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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