Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 71

The calamities gradually thickening round the Eastern Empire, and the fall of Constantinople, 1453 A.D. combined with other events to promote the rapid restoration of learning in Italy; and with that recovery of learning the revival of an interest in the Fables of Æsop is closely identified.

Who acts: calamities, recovery · What happens: thicken, combine, promote, learn, identify, revive · To what, where: fall, rapid restoration, revival, calamities, interest

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 (calamities, recovery), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 calamities	det
2	calamities	calamity	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 identified	nsubj:pass
3	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	4 thickening	advmod
4	thickening	thicken	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 calamities	acl
5	round	round	ADP	_	8 Empire	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Empire	det
7	Eastern	Eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Empire	compound
8	Empire	Empire	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 thickening	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 combined	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 combined	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fall	det
12	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 combined	nsubj:pass
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Constantinople	case
14	Constantinople	Constantinople	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 fall	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 1453	punct
16	1453	1453	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 Constantinople	appos
17	A.D	A.D	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 1453	nmod:unmarked
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 combined	punct
19	combined	combine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 calamities	acl
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 events	case
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 events	amod
22	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 combined	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 promote	mark
24	promote	promote	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 combined	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 restoration	det
26	rapid	rapid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 restoration	amod
27	restoration	restoration	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 promote	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 learning	case
29	learning	learning	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 restoration	nmod
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 Italy	case
31	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 learning	nmod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 identified	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 identified	cc
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 recovery	case
35	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 recovery	det
36	recovery	recovery	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 identified	obl
37	of	of	SCONJ	_	38 learning	mark
38	learning	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	36 recovery	acl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 revival	det
40	revival	revival	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 learning	obj
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 interest	case
42	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 interest	det
43	interest	interest	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 revival	nmod
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 Fables	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Fables	det
46	Fables	Fable	PROPN	Number=Plur	43 interest	nmod
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 Æsop	case
48	Æsop	Æsop	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Fables	nmod
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 identified	aux:pass
50	closely	closely	ADV	_	51 identified	advmod
51	identified	identify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 identified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	thicken	gerund	the calamities not said here		round the Eastern Empire; gradually property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	combine	participle · passive	the calamities not said here	the fall of Constantinople	with other events	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with event=Co-Patient
3	promote	to-infinitive	the calamities not said here	the rapid restoration of learning in Italy		vn promote-102 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent restoration=Theme
4	learn	gerund	that recovery not said here	the revival of a interest in the Fables of Æsop		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revival=Topic
5	identify	present · passive		the calamities	with that recovery; closely property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme
6	revive			a interest in the Fables of Æsop		nom revival «act transitive»: of=patient

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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