Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 9

The Tale consists simply in the narration of a story either founded on facts, or created solely by the imagination, and not necessarily associated with the teaching of any moral lesson.

Who acts: Tale · What happens: consist, found, create, associate, narrate, teach · To what, where: narration, story, moral lesson

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 (Tale), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tale	det
2	Tale	Tale	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 consists	nsubj
3	consists	consist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	simply	simply	ADV	_	3 consists	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 narration	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 narration	det
7	narration	narration	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 founded	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 story	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 narration	nmod
11	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 founded	advmod
12	founded	found	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 consists	parataxis
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 facts	case
14	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 founded	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 created	punct
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 created	cc
17	created	create	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 founded	parataxis
18	solely	solely	ADV	_	17 created	advmod
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 imagination	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 imagination	det
21	imagination	imagination	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 created	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 associated	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 associated	cc
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 necessarily	advmod
25	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	_	26 associated	advmod
26	associated	associate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 created	conj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 teaching	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 teaching	det
29	teaching	teaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 associated	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 lesson	case
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 lesson	det
32	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 lesson	amod
33	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 teaching	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 consists	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	consist	present	the Tale			simply property	tree rules
2	found	past			the narration of a story	on facts; either property	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on fact=Source
3	create	participle				by the imagination; solely property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	associate	participle				with the teaching of any moral lesson; necessarily property	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with teaching=Co-Patient
5	narrate			a story			nom narration «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	teach			any moral lesson			nom teaching «act transitive»: of=patient

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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