Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 89
This volume of Nevelet forms a complete “Corpus Fabularum Æsopicarum;” and to his labours Æsop owes his restoration to universal favour as one of the wise moralists and great teachers of mankind.
Who acts: volume, Æsop · What happens: form, owe · To what, where: complete Fabularum Æsopicarum, restoration, labours
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 (volume, Æsop), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 volume | det |
| 2 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forms | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Nevelet | case |
| 4 | Nevelet | Nevelet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 volume | nmod |
| 5 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Æsopicarum | det |
| 7 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Æsopicarum | amod |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Æsopicarum | punct |
| 9 | Corpus | Corpus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Fabularum | compound |
| 10 | Fabularum | Fabularum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Æsopicarum | compound |
| 11 | Æsopicarum | Æsopicarum | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 forms | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 forms | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 forms | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 owes | cc |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 labours | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 labours | nmod:poss |
| 17 | labours | labour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 owes | obl |
| 18 | Æsop | Æsop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 owes | nsubj |
| 19 | owes | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 forms | parataxis |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 restoration | nmod:poss |
| 21 | restoration | restoration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 owes | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 favour | case |
| 23 | universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 favour | amod |
| 24 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 owes | obl |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 one | case |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 owes | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 moralists | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 moralists | det |
| 29 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 moralists | amod |
| 30 | moralists | moralist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 one | nmod |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 teachers | cc |
| 32 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 teachers | amod |
| 33 | teachers | teacher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 moralists | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 mankind | case |
| 35 | mankind | mankind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 teachers | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 forms | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present | this volume of Nevelet | a complete Fabularum Æsopicarum | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location æsopicarum=Theme | ||||
| 2 | owe | present | Æsop | volume's restoration | to volume's labours goal; to universal favour; as one of the wise moralists and great teachers of mankind | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent restoration=Theme to labour=Goal |
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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