Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 49
Demetrius Phalereus, a philosopher at Athens about 300 B.C., is said to have made the first collection of these fables.
What happens: say, make · To what, where: Demetrius, first collection · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | Demetrius | Demetrius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | Phalereus | Phalereus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Demetrius | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 philosopher | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 philosopher | det |
| 5 | philosopher | philosopher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Demetrius | appos |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 Athens | case |
| 7 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 philosopher | nmod |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 300 | advmod |
| 9 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 philosopher | nmod |
| 10 | B.C | B.C | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 300 | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 B.C | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Demetrius | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | aux:pass |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 made | mark |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 made | aux |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 said | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 collection | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 collection | amod |
| 20 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 fables | case |
| 22 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 fables | det |
| 23 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 collection | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present · passive | Demetrius | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive · perfect | the first collection of this fables | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset collection=Product |
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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