Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 62

He took an active part in public affairs.

Who acts: Maximus · What happens: take · To what, where: active part, public affairs

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 part	det
4	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 part	amod
5	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 affairs	case
7	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 affairs	amod
8	affairs	affair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 took	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	Maximus	a active part		public affairs			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in affair=Location

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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