Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 69

His collection is interesting and important, not only as the parent source or foundation of the earlier printed versions of Æsop, but as the direct channel of attracting to these fables the attention of the learned.

Who acts: collection, direct channel · What happens: be, print, attract, learn · To what, where: versions, attention

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 (collection, direct channel), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 collection	nmod:poss
2	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 interesting	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 interesting	cop
4	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 important	cc
6	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 interesting	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 source	punct
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 source	advmod
9	only	only	ADV	_	13 source	advmod
10	as	as	ADP	_	13 source	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 source	det
12	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 source	compound
13	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 interesting	conj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 foundation	cc
15	foundation	foundation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 source	conj
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 printed	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 earlier	det
18	earlier	early	ADV	Degree=Cmp	19 printed	advmod
19	printed	print	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 source	advcl
20	versions	version	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 printed	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Æsop	case
22	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 versions	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 channel	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 channel	cc
25	as	as	ADP	_	28 channel	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 channel	det
27	direct	direct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 channel	amod
28	channel	channel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 interesting	conj
29	of	of	SCONJ	_	30 attracting	mark
30	attracting	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 channel	acl
31	to	to	ADP	_	33 fables	case
32	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	33 fables	det
33	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 attracting	obl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 attention	det
35	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 fables	appos
36	of	of	SCONJ	_	38 learned	mark
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 learned	det
38	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 attention	acl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 interesting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	abundance's collection		interesting property	tree rules
2	be		abundance's collection not said here			tree rules
3	print	past	abundance's collection not said here	versions of Æsop	early property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Theme
4	attract	gerund	the direct channel not said here		to this fables result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to fable=Result
5	learn	participle		the attention not said here		vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: 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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