Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 47

The fables were in the first instance only narrated by Æsop, and for a long time were handed down by the uncertain channel of oral tradition.

Who acts: fables, uncertain channel · What happens: be, narrate, hand down, channel · To what, where: first instance, oral tradition

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, uncertain channel), 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	2 fables	det
2	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 instance	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 instance	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 instance	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 instance	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 instance	amod
7	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	only	only	ADV	_	9 narrated	advmod
9	narrated	narrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 instance	acl
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 Æsop	case
11	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 narrated	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 handed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 handed	cc
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 time	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 time	det
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 time	amod
17	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 handed	obl
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 handed	aux:pass
19	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 instance	acl
20	down	down	ADP	_	19 handed	compound:prt
21	by	by	ADP	_	24 channel	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 channel	det
23	uncertain	uncertain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 channel	amod
24	channel	channel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 handed	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 tradition	case
26	oral	oral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 tradition	amod
27	tradition	tradition	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 channel	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 instance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fables		the first instance			tree rules
2	narrate speech: other	participle		the first instance not said here			by Æsop	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	hand down	past · passive	the uncertain channel of oral tradition	the first instance not said here		time		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	channel			oral tradition				nom channel «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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