Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 52
315, wrote a treatise on, and converted into Latin prose, some of these fables.
Who acts: 315 · What happens: write on, convert · To what, where: treatise, Latin prose
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 (315), 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 | 315 | 315 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 wrote | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 315 | punct |
| 3 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 treatise | det |
| 5 | treatise | treatise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wrote | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 wrote | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 converted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 converted | cc |
| 9 | converted | convert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wrote | conj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 prose | case |
| 11 | Latin | Latin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 prose | amod |
| 12 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 converted | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 some | punct |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 prose | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fables | case |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 fables | det |
| 17 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 some | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write on | past | 315 | a treatise | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treatise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | convert | participle | 315 not said here | into Latin prose result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into prose=Result |
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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