Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 8
Each is distinguished by its own special characteristics.
Who acts: own special characteristics · What happens: distinguish · To what, where: Each
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 (own special characteristics), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 distinguished | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 distinguished | aux:pass |
| 3 | distinguished | distinguish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 characteristics | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 characteristics | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 characteristics | amod |
| 7 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 characteristics | amod |
| 8 | characteristics | characteristic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 distinguished | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 distinguished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | distinguish | present · passive | Parable's own special characteristics | Each | vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Attribute subject=Theme |
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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