Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 87
It consisted, in addition to the collection of fables given by Planudes and reprinted in the various earlier editions, of one hundred and thirty-six new fables (never before published) from MSS. in the Library of the Vatican, of forty fables attributed to Aphthonius, and of forty-three from Babrias.
Who acts: effort · What happens: consist, give, reprint, publish, attribute · To what, where: addition, Library, fables, various earlier editions, MSS, forty fables
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 (effort), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 consisted | nsubj |
| 2 | consisted | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 addition | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 addition | case |
| 5 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 consisted | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 collection | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 collection | det |
| 8 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 addition | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 fables | case |
| 10 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 collection | nmod |
| 11 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 fables | acl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Planudes | case |
| 13 | Planudes | Planude | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 given | obl:agent |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 reprinted | cc |
| 15 | reprinted | reprint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 given | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 editions | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 editions | det |
| 18 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 editions | amod |
| 19 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 editions | amod |
| 20 | editions | edition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 reprinted | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hundred | punct |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 hundred | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 hundred | compound |
| 24 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 given | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 thirty | cc |
| 26 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 hundred | conj |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 thirty | punct |
| 28 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 fables | nummod |
| 29 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fables | amod |
| 30 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hundred | nmod |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 published | punct |
| 32 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 33 before | advmod |
| 33 | before | before | ADV | _ | 34 published | advmod |
| 34 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 hundred | acl |
| 35 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 published | punct |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 MSS | case |
| 37 | MSS | MSS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 published | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 consisted | punct |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 Library | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Library | det |
| 41 | Library | Library | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 consisted | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 Vatican | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Vatican | det |
| 44 | Vatican | Vatican | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 Library | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 fables | punct |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 fables | case |
| 47 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 fables | nummod |
| 48 | fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 consisted | obl |
| 49 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 fables | acl |
| 50 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 Aphthonius | case |
| 51 | Aphthonius | Aphthonius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 attributed | obl |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 three | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 three | cc |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 57 three | case |
| 55 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 57 three | compound |
| 56 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 55 forty | punct |
| 57 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 consisted | obl |
| 58 | from | from | ADP | _ | 59 Babrias | case |
| 59 | Babrias | Babrias | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 three | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 consisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | past | effort | addition | the Library of the Vatican | to the collection of fables; of forty fables; of forty three from Babrias | tree rules | ||
| 2 | give | participle | fables not said here | of one hundred six new fables | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reprint | participle | the various earlier editions | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | publish | participle | MSS | before property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from mss=Material | ||||
| 5 | attribute | participle | forty fables not said here | Aphthonius | 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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