Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 50

Phædrus, a slave by birth or by subsequent misfortunes, and admitted by Augustus to the honours of a freedman, imitated many of these fables in Latin iambics about the commencement of the Christian era.

Who acts: Phædrus · What happens: admit, imitate, honour · To what, where: honours, many, freedman

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 (Phædrus), 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	Phædrus	Phædrus	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 imitated	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slave	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 slave	det
4	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Phædrus	appos
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 birth	case
6	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slave	nmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 misfortunes	cc
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 misfortunes	case
9	subsequent	subsequent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 misfortunes	amod
10	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Phædrus	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 admitted	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 admitted	cc
13	admitted	admit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Phædrus	parataxis
14	by	by	ADP	_	15 Augustus	case
15	Augustus	Augustus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 admitted	obl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 honours	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 honours	det
18	honours	honour	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 admitted	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 freedman	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 freedman	det
21	freedman	freedman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 honours	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Phædrus	punct
23	imitated	imitate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 imitated	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 fables	case
26	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	27 fables	det
27	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 many	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 iambics	case
29	Latin	Latin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 iambics	amod
30	iambics	iambic	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fables	nmod
31	about	about	ADP	_	33 commencement	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 commencement	det
33	commencement	commencement	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 iambics	nmod
34	of	of	ADP	_	37 era	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 era	det
36	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 era	amod
37	era	era	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 commencement	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 imitated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	admit speech: other	participle			the honours of a freedman	by Augustus	vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to honour=Recipient
2	imitate	past	Phædrus or subsequent misfortunes	many of this fables in Latin iambics about the commencement of the Christian era			vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme
3	honour			a freedman			nom honour «state 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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