Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 64
This brought him into immediate contact with the Western Patriarch, whose interests he henceforth advocated with so much zeal as to bring on him suspicion and persecution from the rulers of the Eastern Church.
Who acts: This · What happens: bring, advocate · To what, where: Maximus, immediate contact, interests, suspicion, rulers
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 contact | case |
| 5 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 contact | amod |
| 6 | contact | contact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 Patriarch | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Patriarch | det |
| 9 | Western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Patriarch | amod |
| 10 | Patriarch | patriarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 contact | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 advocated | punct |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 13 interests | nmod:poss |
| 13 | interests | interest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 advocated | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 advocated | nsubj |
| 15 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 16 advocated | advmod |
| 16 | advocated | advocate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 contact | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 zeal | case |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 zeal | amod |
| 20 | zeal | zeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 advocated | obl |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 bring | mark |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 bring | mark |
| 23 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 advocated | advcl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 bring | obl |
| 26 | suspicion | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bring | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 persecution | cc |
| 28 | persecution | persecution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 suspicion | conj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 31 rulers | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 rulers | det |
| 31 | rulers | ruler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 bring | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Church | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Church | det |
| 34 | Eastern | Eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Church | compound |
| 35 | Church | Church | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 rulers | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | This | Maximus | immediate contact with the Western Patriarch | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into contact=Destination | |||
| 2 | advocate | participle · passive | interests | with much zeal; henceforth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | suspicion and persecution | the rulers of the Eastern Church | on Maximus | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent suspicion=Theme on he=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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