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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

nsubjflatobjcasedetnmodpunctccaux:passconjcaseoblmarkadvcldetobjpunctmarkparataxisflatpunctdetamodcompoundappospunctccapposcasenmodflatpunctapposcasenmodpunctconjobjdetamodnsubjacl:relcldetobjcasenmodadvmodcasedetcompoundoblpunctrootMartinPROPNLutherPROPNtranslatedVERBtwentyNUMofADPtheseDETfablesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwasAUXurgedVERBbyADPMelancthonPROPNtoPARTcompleteVERBtheDETwholeADJ;PUNCTwhileSCONJGottfriedPROPNArnoldPROPN,PUNCTtheDETcelebratedVERBLutheranPROPNtheologianNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJlibrarianNOUNtoADPFrederickPROPNI.PROPN,PUNCTkingNOUNofADPPrussiaPROPN,PUNCTmentionsNOUNthatPRONtheDETgreatADJReformerPROPNvaluedVERBtheDETFablesNOUNofADPÆsopPROPNnextADVafterADPtheDETHolyPROPNScripturesPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1MartinMartinPROPNNumber=Sing3 translatednsubj
2LutherLutherPROPNNumber=Sing1 Martinflat
3translatedtranslateVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4twentytwentyNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card3 translatedobj
5ofofADP_7 fablescase
6thesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem7 fablesdet
7fablesfableNOUNNumber=Plur4 twentynmod
8,,PUNCT_11 urgedpunct
9andandCCONJ_11 urgedcc
10wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 urgedaux:pass
11urgedurgeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 translatedconj
12bybyADP_13 Melancthoncase
13MelancthonMelancthonPROPNNumber=Sing11 urgedobl
14totoPART_15 completemark
15completecompleteVERBVerbForm=Inf11 urgedadvcl
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 wholedet
17wholewholeADJDegree=Pos15 completeobj
18;;PUNCT_20 Gottfriedpunct
19whilewhileSCONJ_20 Gottfriedmark
20GottfriedGottfriedPROPNNumber=Sing3 translatedparataxis
21ArnoldArnoldPROPNNumber=Sing20 Gottfriedflat
22,,PUNCT_26 theologianpunct
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 theologiandet
24celebratedcelebrateVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass26 theologianamod
25LutheranLutheranPROPNNumber=Sing26 theologiancompound
26theologiantheologianNOUNNumber=Sing20 Gottfriedappos
27,,PUNCT_29 librarianpunct
28andandCCONJ_29 librariancc
29librarianlibrarianNOUNNumber=Sing20 Gottfriedappos
30totoADP_31 Frederickcase
31FrederickFrederickPROPNNumber=Sing29 librariannmod
32I.I.PROPNNumber=Sing31 Frederickflat
33,,PUNCT_34 kingpunct
34kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing29 librarianappos
35ofofADP_36 Prussiacase
36PrussiaPrussiaPROPNNumber=Sing34 kingnmod
37,,PUNCT_38 mentionspunct
38mentionsmentionNOUNNumber=Plur34 kingconj
39thatthatPRONPronType=Rel43 valuedobj
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art42 Reformerdet
41greatgreatADJDegree=Pos42 Reformeramod
42ReformerReformerPROPNNumber=Sing43 valuednsubj
43valuedvalueVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin38 mentionsacl:relcl
44thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art45 Fablesdet
45FablesfableNOUNNumber=Plur43 valuedobj
46ofofADP_47 Æsopcase
47ÆsopÆsopPROPNNumber=Sing45 Fablesnmod
48nextnextADV_43 valuedadvmod
49afterafterADP_52 Scripturescase
50thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art52 Scripturesdet
51HolyHolyPROPN_52 Scripturescompound
52ScripturesScripturePROPNNumber=Plur43 valuedobl
53..PUNCT_3 translatedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1translatepastMartintwenty of this fablesvn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twenty=Patient
2urgepast · passiveMelancthonvn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3completeto-infinitiveMelancthon not said herethe wholevn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=Eventuality
4celebrateparticiplevn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5valuepastthe great Reformermentionsafter the Holy Scripturesnext propertytree 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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