Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 73
They took their place beside the Holy Scriptures and the ancient classic authors, in the minds of the great students of that day.
Who acts: calamities · What happens: take, mind · To what, where: place, Holy Scriptures, great students
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), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 place | nmod:poss |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 8 Scriptures | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Scriptures | det |
| 7 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 8 Scriptures | compound |
| 8 | Scriptures | Scripture | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 authors | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 authors | det |
| 11 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 authors | amod |
| 12 | classic | classic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 authors | amod |
| 13 | authors | author | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Scriptures | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 minds | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 minds | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 minds | det |
| 17 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Scriptures | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 students | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 students | det |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 students | amod |
| 21 | students | student | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 minds | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 day | case |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 students | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | calamities = calamity | calamities's place | the Holy Scriptures and the ancient classic authors | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 2 | mind | the great students of that day | nom mind «cognition 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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