Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 59
Maximus Planudes, a learned monk of Constantinople, made a collection of about a hundred and fifty of these fables.
Who acts: Maximus · What happens: learn, make · To what, where: collection
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 (Maximus), 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 | Maximus | Maximus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 made | nsubj |
| 2 | Planudes | Planude | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Maximus | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 monk | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 monk | det |
| 5 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 monk | amod |
| 6 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Maximus | appos |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Constantinople | case |
| 8 | Constantinople | Constantinople | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 monk | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Maximus | punct |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 collection | det |
| 12 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hundred | case |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 hundred | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hundred | det |
| 16 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 collection | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fifty | cc |
| 18 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 hundred | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 fables | case |
| 20 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 fables | det |
| 21 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 fifty | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | make | past | Maximus | a collection of a hundred | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent collection=Product |
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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