Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 72

These fables, indeed, were among the first writings of an earlier antiquity that attracted attention.

Who acts: fables, earlier antiquity · What happens: be, attract · To what, where: 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 (fables, earlier antiquity), 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	These	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 fables	det
2	fables	fable	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 writings	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fables	punct
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	2 fables	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fables	punct
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 writings	cop
7	among	among	ADP	_	10 writings	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 writings	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 writings	amod
10	writings	writing	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 antiquity	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 antiquity	det
13	earlier	early	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 antiquity	amod
14	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 writings	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 attracted	nsubj
16	attracted	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 antiquity	acl:relcl
17	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 attracted	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 writings	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	this fables					among the first writings; of a earlier antiquity	tree rules
2	attract	past	a earlier antiquity	attention					vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=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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