Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 58

During this long period these fables seem to have suffered an eclipse, to have disappeared and to have been forgotten; and it is at the commencement of the fourteenth century, when the Byzantine emperors were the great patrons of learning, and amidst the splendors of an Asiatic court, that we next find honours paid to the name and memory of Æsop.

Who acts: fables, eclipse, Byzantine emperors, we · What happens: seem, suffer, disappear, forget, be, find · To what, where: eclipse, commencement, great patrons, honours

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 (fables, eclipse, Byzantine emperors, 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	During	during	ADP	_	4 period	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 period	det
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 period	amod
4	period	period	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seem	obl
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 fables	det
6	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 seem	nsubj
7	seem	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	10 suffered	mark
9	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 suffered	aux
10	suffered	suffer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 seem	xcomp
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 eclipse	det
12	eclipse	eclipse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 suffered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 disappeared	punct
14	to	to	PART	_	16 disappeared	mark
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 disappeared	aux
16	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 suffered	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 forgotten	cc
18	to	to	PART	_	21 forgotten	mark
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 forgotten	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 forgotten	aux:pass
21	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 disappeared	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 commencement	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 commencement	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 commencement	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 commencement	cop
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 commencement	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 commencement	det
28	commencement	commencement	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seem	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 century	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 century	det
31	fourteenth	fourteenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 century	amod
32	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 commencement	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 patrons	punct
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	41 patrons	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 emperors	det
36	Byzantine	byzantine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 emperors	amod
37	emperors	emperor	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 patrons	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 patrons	cop
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 patrons	det
40	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 patrons	amod
41	patrons	patron	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 commencement	appos
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 learning	case
43	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 patrons	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 find	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 find	cc
46	amidst	amidst	ADP	_	48 splendors	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 splendors	det
48	splendors	splendor	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 find	obl
49	of	of	ADP	_	52 court	case
50	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 court	det
51	Asiatic	asiatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 court	amod
52	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 splendors	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 find	punct
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 find	mark
55	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 find	nsubj
56	next	next	ADV	_	57 find	advmod
57	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 seem	conj
58	honours	honour	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 find	obj
59	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 honours	acl
60	to	to	ADP	_	62 name	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 name	det
62	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 paid	obl
63	and	and	CCONJ	_	64 memory	cc
64	memory	memory	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 name	conj
65	of	of	ADP	_	66 Æsop	case
66	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	Number=Sing	64 memory	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 seem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	present	this fables			during this long period		vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	suffer	to-infinitive · perfect	this fables not said here	a eclipse				vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eclipse=Stimulus
3	disappear	to-infinitive · perfect	this fables not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	forget	to-infinitive · perfect · passive	this fables not said here					tree rules
5	is	present	eclipse		the commencement	century		tree rules
6	is a	past	the Byzantine emperors	the great patrons			of learning	tree rules
7	find	present	we	honours			amidst the splendors of a Asiatic court; next property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Topic
8	pay	participle		honours not said here			to the name and memory of Æsop	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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