Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 43
Many are obtained from ancient authors prior to the time in which he lived.
Who acts: inferiority · What happens: obtain, live · To what, where: Many, ancient authors
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 (inferiority), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 obtained | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 obtained | aux:pass |
| 3 | obtained | obtain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 authors | case |
| 5 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 authors | amod |
| 6 | authors | author | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 obtained | obl |
| 7 | prior | prior | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 10 time | case |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 prior | fixed |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 authors | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lived | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 time | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obtained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obtain | present · passive | Many | ancient authors prior the time | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from author=Source | ||||
| 2 | live | past | inferiority | in the time | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
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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