Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 56
Avienus, also a contemporary of Ausonius, put some of these fables into Latin elegiacs, which are given by Nevelet (in a book we shall refer to hereafter), and are occasionally incorporated with the editions of Phædrus.
Who acts: you, Nevelet, we · What happens: put, give, refer, incorporate · To what, where: some, Latin elegiacs, book, hereafter
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 (you, Nevelet, we), 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 | Avienus | Avienus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 put | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 contemporary | punct |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 contemporary | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 contemporary | det |
| 5 | contemporary | contemporary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Avienus | conj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Ausonius | case |
| 7 | Ausonius | Ausonius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 contemporary | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Avienus | punct |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fables | case |
| 12 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 fables | det |
| 13 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 some | nmod |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 elegiacs | case |
| 15 | Latin | Latin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 elegiacs | amod |
| 16 | elegiacs | elegiac | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 put | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 given | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 given | nsubj |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 given | aux:pass |
| 20 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 elegiacs | acl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 Nevelet | case |
| 22 | Nevelet | Nevelet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 given | obl |
| 23 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 book | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 book | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 book | det |
| 26 | book | book | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Nevelet | appos |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 refer | nsubj |
| 28 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 refer | aux |
| 29 | refer | refer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 book | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 hereafter | case |
| 31 | hereafter | hereafter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 refer | obl |
| 32 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 book | punct |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 incorporated | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 incorporated | cc |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 incorporated | aux:pass |
| 36 | occasionally | occasionally | ADV | _ | 37 incorporated | advmod |
| 37 | incorporated | incorporate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 put | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 editions | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 editions | det |
| 40 | editions | edition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 incorporated | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 Phædrus | case |
| 42 | Phædrus | Phædrus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 editions | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | some | Latin elegiacs | Avienus vocative | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent some=Goal | ||
| 2 | give | present · passive | Nevelet | Latin elegiacs | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | refer | shall | we | a book not said here | hereafter | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent book=Theme to hereafter=Recipient | |||
| 4 | incorporate | present · passive | you not said here | with the editions of Phædrus; occasionally property | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: with edition=Co-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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