Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 57
Seven centuries elapsed before the next notice is found of the Fables of Æsop.
What happens: elapse, find · To what, where: Seven centuries
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.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 centuries | nummod |
| 2 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 found | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | elapsed | elapse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 centuries | acl |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 notice | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 notice | det |
| 6 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 notice | amod |
| 7 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 elapsed | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | aux:pass |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Fables | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fables | det |
| 12 | Fables | Fable | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 found | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Æsop | case |
| 14 | Æsop | Æsop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Fables | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | elapse | participle | Seven centuries not said here | before the next notice | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | present · passive | Seven centuries | of the Fables of Æsop | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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