Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 82
Martin Luther translated twenty of these fables, and was urged by Melancthon to complete the whole; while Gottfried Arnold, the celebrated Lutheran theologian, and librarian to Frederick I., king of Prussia, mentions that the great Reformer valued the Fables of Æsop next after the Holy Scriptures.
Who acts: Martin, Melancthon, great Reformer · What happens: translate, urge, complete, celebrate, value · To what, where: twenty, whole, mentions
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 (Martin, Melancthon, great Reformer), 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 | Martin | Martin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 translated | nsubj |
| 2 | Luther | Luther | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Martin | flat |
| 3 | translated | translate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 translated | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fables | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 fables | det |
| 7 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 twenty | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 urged | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 urged | cc |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 urged | aux:pass |
| 11 | urged | urge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 translated | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Melancthon | case |
| 13 | Melancthon | Melancthon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 urged | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 complete | mark |
| 15 | complete | complete | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 urged | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 whole | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 complete | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 Gottfried | punct |
| 19 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 Gottfried | mark |
| 20 | Gottfried | Gottfried | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 translated | parataxis |
| 21 | Arnold | Arnold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Gottfried | flat |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 theologian | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 theologian | det |
| 24 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 theologian | amod |
| 25 | Lutheran | Lutheran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 theologian | compound |
| 26 | theologian | theologian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Gottfried | appos |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 librarian | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 librarian | cc |
| 29 | librarian | librarian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Gottfried | appos |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Frederick | case |
| 31 | Frederick | Frederick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 librarian | nmod |
| 32 | I. | I. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Frederick | flat |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 king | punct |
| 34 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 librarian | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Prussia | case |
| 36 | Prussia | Prussia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 king | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 mentions | punct |
| 38 | mentions | mention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 king | conj |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 valued | obj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Reformer | det |
| 41 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 Reformer | amod |
| 42 | Reformer | Reformer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 valued | nsubj |
| 43 | valued | value | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 mentions | acl:relcl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Fables | det |
| 45 | Fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 valued | obj |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 Æsop | case |
| 47 | Æsop | Æsop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 Fables | nmod |
| 48 | next | next | ADV | _ | 43 valued | advmod |
| 49 | after | after | ADP | _ | 52 Scriptures | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 Scriptures | det |
| 51 | Holy | Holy | PROPN | _ | 52 Scriptures | compound |
| 52 | Scriptures | Scripture | PROPN | Number=Plur | 43 valued | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 translated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | translate | past | Martin | twenty of this fables | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twenty=Patient | ||||
| 2 | urge | past · passive | Melancthon | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | complete | to-infinitive | Melancthon not said here | the whole | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | celebrate | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | value | past | the great Reformer | mentions | after the Holy Scriptures | next property | tree rules |
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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