Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 63
In 1327 A.D. he was sent on a diplomatic mission to Venice by the Emperor Andronicus the Elder.
Who acts: Emperor Andronicus · What happens: send · To what, where: Maximus, Venice, 1327
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 (Emperor Andronicus), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 1327 | case |
| 2 | 1327 | 1327 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 sent | obl |
| 3 | A.D | A.D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 1327 | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 1327 | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | aux:pass |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 mission | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 mission | det |
| 10 | diplomatic | diplomatic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 mission | amod |
| 11 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Venice | case |
| 13 | Venice | Venice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 Andronicus | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Andronicus | det |
| 16 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Andronicus | compound |
| 17 | Andronicus | Andronicus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sent | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Elder | det |
| 19 | Elder | Elder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Andronicus | appos |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | the Emperor Andronicus | Maximus | Venice | 1327 A.D | on a diplomatic mission | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in 1327=Destination |
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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