Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 48

Socrates is mentioned by Plato[8] as having employed his time while in prison, awaiting the return of the sacred ship from Delphos which was to be the signal of his death, in turning some of these fables into verse, but he thus versified only such as he remembered.

Who acts: Plato, return, Death, sacred ship, Delphos · What happens: mention, employ, await, be, turn, versify · To what, where: Socrates, return, signal, some, verse

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 (Plato, return, Death, sacred ship), 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	Socrates	socrates	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mentioned	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mentioned	aux:pass
3	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 Plato	case
5	Plato	Plato	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mentioned	obl
6	[	[	PUNCT	_	7 8	punct
7	8	8	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 Plato	appos
8	]	]	PUNCT	_	7 8	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 employed	mark
10	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 employed	aux
11	employed	employ	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 mentioned	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 time	nmod:poss
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 employed	obj
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 prison	mark
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 prison	case
16	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 employed	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 awaiting	punct
18	awaiting	await	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 employed	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 return	det
20	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 awaiting	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 ship	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 ship	det
23	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ship	amod
24	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 return	nmod
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 Delphos	case
26	Delphos	Delphos	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 ship	nmod
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 signal	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 signal	cop
29	to	to	PART	_	32 signal	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 signal	cop
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 signal	det
32	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 return	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 death	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 death	nmod:poss
35	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 signal	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 turning	punct
37	in	in	SCONJ	_	38 turning	mark
38	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 awaiting	conj
39	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	38 turning	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 fables	case
41	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	42 fables	det
42	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 some	nmod
43	into	into	ADP	_	44 verse	case
44	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 turning	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 versified	punct
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	49 versified	cc
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 versified	nsubj
48	thus	thus	ADV	_	49 versified	advmod
49	versified	versify	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mentioned	conj
50	only	only	ADV	_	51 such	advmod
51	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	49 versified	xcomp
52	as	as	SCONJ	_	54 remembered	mark
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 remembered	nsubj
54	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 versified	advcl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 mentioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mention speech: other	present · passive	Plato	Socrates				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic
2	employ	gerund · perfect	Plato not said here			time		vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	await	gerund	Plato not said here	the return of the sacred ship from Delphos and the signal				tree rules
4	is a	past	the return of the sacred ship from Delphos and the signal	the signal			of Delphos's death	tree rules
5	turn	gerund	Plato not said here	some	verse			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent some=Theme into verse=Trajectory
6	versify	past	Death				such, thus property	tree rules
7	remember	past	Death					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
8	return		the sacred ship from Delphos					nom return «communication intransitive»: of=agent
9	die		Delphos					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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