Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Literally Translated From the Greek, sentence 91
They have been translated into the greater number of the languages both of Europe and of the East, and have been read, and will be read, for generations, alike by Jew, Heathen, Mohammedan, and Christian.
Who acts: Jew · What happens: translate, read · To what, where: Scriptures, greater number
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 (Jew), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 translated | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 translated | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 translated | aux:pass |
| 4 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 number | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 number | det |
| 7 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 number | amod |
| 8 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 translated | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 languages | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 languages | det |
| 11 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 number | nmod |
| 12 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 Europe | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Europe | case |
| 14 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 languages | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 East | cc |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 East | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 East | det |
| 18 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Europe | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 read | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 read | cc |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 read | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 read | aux:pass |
| 23 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 translated | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 read | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 read | cc |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 read | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 read | aux:pass |
| 28 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 translated | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 generations | punct |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 generations | case |
| 31 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 read | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 alike | punct |
| 33 | alike | alike | ADV | _ | 28 read | advmod |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 Jew | case |
| 35 | Jew | Jew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 read | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Heathen | punct |
| 37 | Heathen | Heathen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Jew | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Mohammedan | punct |
| 39 | Mohammedan | Mohammedan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Jew | conj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Christian | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 Christian | cc |
| 42 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 translated | parataxis |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 translated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | translate | present · perfect · passive | Scriptures = scripture | into the greater number of the languages result | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into number=Result | ||||
| 2 | read | present · perfect · passive | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 3 | read | future · passive | Jew and Heathen and Mohammedan | for generations | alike property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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