Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 55

Ausonius,[9] the friend of the Emperor Valentinian, and the latest poet of eminence in the Western Empire, has handed down some of these fables in verse, which Julianus Titianus, a contemporary writer of no great name, translated into prose.

Who acts: prose · What happens: hand down, translate · To what, where: Ausonius, Julianus

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 (prose), 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	Ausonius	Ausonius	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 handed	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 9	punct
3	[	[	PUNCT	_	4 9	punct
4	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Ausonius	appos
5	]	]	PUNCT	_	4 9	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 friend	det
7	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ausonius	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 Valentinian	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Valentinian	det
10	Emperor	Emperor	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Valentinian	compound
11	Valentinian	Valentinian	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 friend	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 poet	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 poet	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 poet	det
15	latest	late	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 poet	amod
16	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ausonius	appos
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 eminence	case
18	eminence	eminence	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 poet	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 Empire	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Empire	det
21	Western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Empire	amod
22	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 eminence	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ausonius	punct
24	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 handed	aux
25	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 handed	compound:prt
27	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 fables	det
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 fables	case
29	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 fables	det
30	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 handed	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 verse	case
32	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fables	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 translated	punct
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	46 translated	obj
35	Julianus	Julianus	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 translated	nsubj:pass
36	Titianus	Titianus	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Julianus	flat
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 writer	punct
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 writer	det
39	contemporary	contemporary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 writer	amod
40	writer	writer	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Julianus	appos
41	of	of	ADP	_	44 name	case
42	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	44 name	det
43	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 name	amod
44	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 writer	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 translated	punct
46	translated	translate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 fables	acl
47	into	into	ADP	_	48 prose	case
48	prose	prose	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 translated	obl:agent
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 handed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand down	present · perfect · passive		Ausonius					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination fable=Theme
2	translate	participle · passive	prose	Julianus					tree rules

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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